The Roman Poets: Everyman's Library (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (501 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375400710 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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About as far from stuffy as it gets, these Roman poets wrote with passion and wit. These are beautiful books, sturdily made, and sensibly edited and arranged. Horace's odes are beautiful and thought-provoking, and Martial (despite that his name leads the uninitiated to expect battle imagery) was a very funny man. . / You're now 'a milestone in ironic outlook.' / This the price of your publicity: / MARTIAL VIEWS LIFE VERY SAUCILY / Whatever they say is a load of balls / Certain to send you to second-hand stalls." The Roman Poets is another welcome addition to the Everyman's Librar
Johannes Platonicus said "Peter Washington: The Barbarization of Latin Poetry". Peter Washington's fine selection of Roman poets is sadly watered down and barbarized by the translations he chose from English poets and playwrights, ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, who had no regard for the genre in which the Latin poets originally wrote in. The epic meter, from which all the Latin poets modeled themselves off of, is discarded and the rhyming couplet is tragically substituted. Peter Washington's reason for this is th. Not quite up to the Everyman standard Jennifer Grey While I generally adore Everyman's poetry collections, this is another one in the series that could have used a slightly more robust introduction. As it is, Washington kicks things off by declaring himself more interested in the vagaries of translation than anything else, and then leaves the reader to their own devices.I could perhaps understand that approach were this a side-by-side with the original Latin facing whichever version Washington plucked from
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 meditations, the relentless imaginative energy of Ovid's narratives, and the sonorous beauty of the odes of Horace have been for tw