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The Roman Poets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Hardcover • 1997 • English

The Roman Poets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

By Peter Washington

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

The urban and pastoral poetry of the Roman republic, and of the empire that succeeded it, was both the culmination of the magnificent classical tradition of the Mediterranean and the seedbed for almost all the subsequent poetic traditions of Western and Central Europe. The stateliness of Virgil's Eclogues and the grandeur of his epic line, the unsurpassable lyricism - by turns tender, incisive, and scabrous - of Catullus's elegies and satires, the philosophical splendor of Lucretius's meditation...Show more

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Book details

ISBN

9780375400711

Publisher

Everyman's Library

Published year

1997

Language

English

Original title

The Roman Poets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Format

Hardcover

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