How to read a Latin poem : if you can't read Latin yet /

This is a book about poetry, language, and classical antiquity and explains to the reader with little or no Latin how the language works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression. Fitzgerald guides the reader through samples of Latin poetry to give a sense of how the individual poems feel in Latin a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fitzgerald, William, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Poetry > Appreciation.
Poésie latine > Histoire et critique.
Poésie > Appréciation.
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Latin poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A Guide to the pronunciation of Latin
  • Prelude
  • 1 Love, and a genre
  • 2 Hate, mockery, and the physical world
  • 3 Horace: the sensation of mediocrity
  • 4 Vergil: the unclassical classic
  • 5 Lucan and Seneca: poets of apocalypse
  • 6 Science fiction: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Ovida's Metamorphoses
  • Epilogue
  • Guide to further reading.

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