The Silvae of Statius: Translated With Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Publius Papinius Statius

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0266435793 ISBN 13: 9780266435792

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Silvae of Statius<br/><br/>My obligations to magazine articles and miscel laneous criticisms are too numerous to identify and acknowledge in detail here, but an effort has been made to refer to its author any important debt of which I am conscious. Special mention should, how ever, be made of papers in the yournal of Philology by Professor Robinson Ellis and Mr. Hugh Macnaghten; by Professor Housman and Professor Postgate in the Clam'eal Review, and by Professor Postgate in Pbilo logur. There is also one critique, which in spite of considerable bias and some inaccuracy is so lively and stimulating that I have allowed myself to refer to it and even to quote it — with what maybe thought undue frequency. M. Nisard, in the first volume of his Etude: a'emceurr et de critique fur ler Poé'ter Latin: de la Decadence, devotes some seventy-five pages to Statius. In the preface to his second edition (1849) he speaks of these studies as a young man's work, and is inclined to regard the judgements as severe. His readers will probably endorse this opinion: but the chapters on Statius are too piquant to be left unread, and it would be difficult to find a more animated and at the same time more faithful account of the conditions under which the poetry of the silver period was for the most part produced....

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0266435793
• ISBN 13: 9780266435792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 225