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Landor's Latin Poems
Walter Savage Landor
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Description for Landor's Latin Poems
Hardback. Translator(s): Rudd, Niall. Num Pages: 108 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 166 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
This book presents fifty illustrations of Landor's exceptional dexterity in Latin verse, showing his hostile treatment of political figures (including royalty), his relations with friends, his pleasures and sufferings as a lover, and his delight in the changing phases of nature. The long closing piece treats, within a mythological framework, the great forces that govern the world and its inhabitants. Landor offers an interesting contrast with Dr Johnson, who died in 1784 when Landor was nine and who is sometimes wrongly described as the last important writer with an inner command of Latin. First, though Landor was careless about ... Read more
This book presents fifty illustrations of Landor's exceptional dexterity in Latin verse, showing his hostile treatment of political figures (including royalty), his relations with friends, his pleasures and sufferings as a lover, and his delight in the changing phases of nature. The long closing piece treats, within a mythological framework, the great forces that govern the world and its inhabitants. Landor offers an interesting contrast with Dr Johnson, who died in 1784 when Landor was nine and who is sometimes wrongly described as the last important writer with an inner command of Latin. First, though Landor was careless about ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
Number of Pages
108
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483475
SKU
V9781611483475
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About Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) was an English writer and poet. Niall Rudd is professor emeritus of Latin at the University of Bristol.
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