Poems
$34.79
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2018
Summary
The Poetry Book Society Autumn 2018 Recommended Translation. Asked to name the great Latin love poets, today’s reader is likely to offer Catullus, Ovid, Virgil, Horace. Propertius, a successor of the first and influential peer to the others, has not been blessed by posterity. Yet at their best his poems match any of the period. They are poems of love, of desire, of insecurity and obsession: of struggle, too, as they resist the Augustan Empire’s attempts to turn its love poets into propagand…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784106515 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784106518 |
| Author: | Sextus Propertius, Patrick Worsnip |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Carcanet Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 328g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 20mm |
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`Propertius is perhaps the most enigmatic of the great poets from the golden age of Latin literature […] Patrick Worsnip’s vibrant contemporary translation will bring him to a new generation of discerning readers.’ - Peter Heslin, from the Introduction
About The Author
Sextus Propertius
Sextus Propertius (c. 55 – 15 BC) was an elegiac poet of the Augustan age, born and raised in Umbria. Little biographical detail survives beyond what can be inferred from his poems. He published his first book of verse around 30 BC, and at least three more in his lifetime. He was in the circle of the influential patron of the arts Maecenas. A successor of Catullus and rough contemporary of Vergil, Ovid and Horace, he is perhaps best known today through Ezra Pound’s experimental `homage’ of 1919.; After reading Classics and Modern Languages at Merton College, Oxford, Patrick Worsnip worked for more than forty years as a correspondent and editor for Reuters news agency, with postings in Italy, Russia, Poland, Iran, Lebanon, the us and the UK. Since retiring in 2012, he has devoted himself to translation from Italian and Latin, and to magazine articles on Italian poetry. He divides his time between Cambridge and Umbria, Italy. He is married, with one son.
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