Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius

Zusatztext "One very particular modern American poet was famously taken with the Umbrian's lively, pompous, eloquent, pedantic, subtle and comic qualities--what Katz calls his "willful strangeness" and "rough beauty" ---namely Ezra Pound. It is a fascinating exercise to compare Katz's sturdily faithful version [to Pound's]."--Paul Cartledge, Sunday Telegraph Informationen zum Autor Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, art critic, and curator. He is the author of Charm , translations from the Latin of book I of the elegies of Sextus Propertius, as well as eight books of original poetry. Klappentext "It is good to have these supple, lucid renderings of Propertius which well capture the complexity of his brilliant elegies through another artist's virtuosity. Katz's translation should do much to preserve the reputation of one of Rome's most important and powerful poets for the present generation and beyond." --Michael C. J. Putnam, Brown University "This work is a consummate labor of love, which has managed to translate the ageless sophistication of the Roman poet Propertius (50 to 16 BC) into the distracted dissonance of our own perilous times. Himself an accomplished poet, Vincent Katz has found both an idiom and a cadence specific to his master's art. The result is a wonderful, dense text of exceptional poetry, which brings Propertius back to us from the dusty shelves of history." --Robert Creeley "Of all the great Roman poets, Propertius tends, as they say of wines, to travel least well. Where the others have frequently found themselves decently transcribed into English, Propertius--complex, insolent, heartbreaking, sardonic, brilliantly ambiguous, outrageously protean--has not. Until now. Vincent Katz has here devised for him a rich and subtle American style, one that evokes, with appropriate delicacy and power, his variety, his shifting tones and textures, his unique shimmers and shadows." --W. R. Johnson, University of Chicago Zusammenfassung The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy. A contemporary of Virgil and Horace, Propertius has influenced scores of poets - from Ovid to Housman to Pound. This work contains poems that pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius's romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad....

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• Authors: Propertius, Propertius Propertius, Sextus Propertius, Sextus/ Katz Propertius
• Assisted by: Peter Cole (Editor), Vincent Sieburth (Editor), Rosanna Warren (Editor), Vincent Katz (Translation), Katz Vincent (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2004
• EAN: 9780691115825
• ISBN: 978-0-691-11582-5
• No. of pages: 520
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation; Lockert Library of Poetry in T; The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation; Lockert Library of Poetry in T
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; POETRY / General, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets