Poets in a landscape
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Author
Publication
2010 - New York Review Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
69,000 words, Guess
Page Count
276 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781590173381
- ISBN-101590173384
- Library of Congress Control Number2009036325
- OCLC Control Number422760326
- Better World Books9781590173381
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL24022673M
Classifications
- DDC871.092/2
- DDCB
- LCCPA6047 .H5 2010
and 1 more
- LCCPA6047.H5 2010
Description
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of both Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, "I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work." The poets are Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet sketches the stories of the poets' lives and fills in the historical background, while offering crisp modern translations of their finest work and memorably vivid descriptions of the natural world. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry-altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.
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- New York Review Books classics
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