The Poems of Exile

The Poems of Exile
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2005-01-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520242609

"This is no small achievement. For the language-lover the translation provides elegant, flowing English verse, for the classicist it conveys close approximation to the Latin meaning coupled with a sense of the movement and rhythmic variety of Ovid's language"—Geraldine Herbert-Brown, editor of Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at its Bimillennium "This book fills a gap. There is no similar annotated English translation of Ovid's exile poetry. Thoroughly grounded in Ovidian scholarship, Green's introduction and notes are helpful and informative. The translation is accurate, idiomatic, and lively, closely imitating the Latin elegiac couplet and capturing Ovid's changing moods."—Karl Galinsky, author of Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects

Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry

Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
Author: Irene Peirano Garrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107104246

Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric's relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.

Talking Books

Talking Books
Author: G. O. Hutchinson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2008-08-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0191557498

Increasing importance is being attached to how Greek and Latin books of poems were arranged, but such research has often been carried out with little attention to the physical fragments of actual ancient poetry-books. In this extensive study Gregory Hutchinson investigates the design of Greek and Latin books of poems in the light of papyri, including recent discoveries. A series of discussions of major poems and collections from two central periods of Greek and Latin literature is framed by a substantial and illustrated survey of poetry-books and reading, and by a more theoretical discussion of structures involving books. The main poets discussed are Callimachus, Apollonius, Posidippus, Catullus, Horace, and Ovid; a chapter on Latin didactic includes Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, and Manilius.

Roman Food Poems

Roman Food Poems
Author: Alistair Elliot
Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2003
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

This is a parallel text collection of the best Latin poems on food, translated into poetic English.

The Poetry of John Paul II

The Poetry of John Paul II
Author: Pope John Paul II
Publisher: USCCB Publishing
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2003
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781574555561

"Publication No. 5-556"--Page facing title page Contents: The stream -- Meditations on the book of Genesis at the threshold of the Sistine Chapel -- A hill in the land of Moriah.

The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature

The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature
Author: Peter E. Knox
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2013-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195395166

Each selection begins with a short biographical and historical essay.

Roman Poems

Roman Poems
Author: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Publisher: City Lights Books
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1986-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780872861879

The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet-the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after his homosexuality led the Italian Communist Party to expel him on charges of "moral and political unworthiness," Pasolini fled to Rome. This selection of poems from his early impoverished days on the outskirts of Rome to his last (with a backward longing glance at his native Frill) is at the center of his poetic and filmic vision of modern Italian life as an Inferno. Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in 1922 in Bologna. In addition to the films for which he is world famous, he wrote novels, poetry, and social and cultural criticism. He was murdered in 1975.

Allusion and Intertext

Allusion and Intertext
Author: Stephen Hinds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1998-01-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521576772

The study of the deliberate allusion by one author to the words of a previous author has long been central to Latin philology. However, literary Romanists have been diffident about situating such work within the more spacious inquiries into intertextuality now current. This 1998 book represents an attempt to find (or recover) some space for the study of allusion - as a project of continuing vitality - within an excitingly enlarged universe of intertexts. It combines traditional classical approaches with modern literary-theoretical ways of thinking, and offers attentive close readings, innovative perspectives on literary history, and theoretical sophistication of argument. Like other volumes in the series it is among the most broadly conceived short books on Roman literature to be published in recent years.