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Sextus Propertius
ISBN: 9780199555925
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
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Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for the twentieth-century reader. His poetry centres on a helpless infatuation for his sinister mistress, Cynthia, and it is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods - from ecstasy to suicidal despair.
Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry and is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods, from ecstasy to suicidal despair.
| ISBN | 0199555923 | | Pages | 240 | | ISBN13 | 9780199555925
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 183 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Series title | Oxford World's Classics | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780192835734 | | Publication date | 30 Jul 2009 | | Height (mm) | 196 | | Translator | Guy Lee | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 874.01 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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Sensual, bitchy, soppy, satirical, this great sequence of love-hate poems lives again in Lee's vivid versions. Not just a scintillating survey of erotic agony and ecstacy, but a witty glimpse of the smart set in Rome. New Statesman & Society  Be the first to write a customer review
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