The Poems of Sextus Propertius

Propertius

ISBN 10: 0520017145 / ISBN 13: 9780520017146

Published by University of California Press, 1972

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Synopsis:

English, Latin

From the Back Cover: Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c.50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds most immediate appeal for the twentieth century reader. 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 ecstacy to suicidal despair. The son of an Umbrian landowner who fought on the wrong side in the Civil War after Caesar's murder, he lost his father and most of his family estate in boyhood and was brought up by his mother. He was able nevertheless to reject a legal or military career and to devote his life to the art of poetry, in which he is a far more self-conscious practitioner than most of the other Latin poets. His modern popularity was furthered in particular by Ezra Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius (1919).

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Poems of Sextus Propertius
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket