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Odes, Elegies and Epigrams
Washington P
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Description for Odes, Elegies and Epigrams
Hardcover. The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory, at a banquet or at a public festival. This edition brings together works of various artists. Illustrator(s): Pine, Johannes. Translator(s): Marlowe, Christopher. Num Pages: 260 pages, Engravings. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 111 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory, at a banquet or at a public festival. With a freshness that belie the nearly two thousand years that separate us Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Propertius and Catullus write movingly of the pleasures of love, of wine, of nature and the joys of pastoral life, a city and its contrasts, of friendship and of death. This edition brings together an exceptional selection with translations by Christpoher Marlowe, ... Read more
The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory, at a banquet or at a public festival. With a freshness that belie the nearly two thousand years that separate us Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Propertius and Catullus write movingly of the pleasures of love, of wine, of nature and the joys of pastoral life, a city and its contrasts, of friendship and of death. This edition brings together an exceptional selection with translations by Christpoher Marlowe, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Series
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857157345
SKU
V9781857157345
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About Washington P
Editor's Biography. Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman Library's Pocket Poets series, including Love Poems, Erotic Poems and Poems of Sleep and Dreams
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