Poems

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Guy Lee is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He is the translator of The Poems of Catullus in World's Classics. R. O. A. M. Lyne is a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of Further Voices in Virgil's Aeneid (Clarendon Press). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Guy Lee, Oliver Lyne, Propertius
• Assisted by: Oliver Lyne (Introduction), Guy (Fellow Lee (Translation), Lee Guy (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2009
• EAN: 9780199555925
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955592-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Latin, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets