Name: Poems (None) (Carcanet Classics)
SKU: 51237565
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Author: Sextus Propertius
ISBN: 9781784106515

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Physical Book

Publisher

Carcanet Pr Ltd

Author

Sextus Propertius

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781784106515

Synopsis "Poems (None) (Carcanet Classics) "

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 propagandists. The result is a highly refined irony, a subtlety of tone and humour that is unique. Patrick Worsnip’s translations bring out Propertius’ playfulness and his psychological acuity, reinstating his poems at the heart of Latin literature’s golden age.

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