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Poets In A Landscape (Paperback, Main)
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Poets In A Landscape (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R466
Discovery Miles 4 660
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Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University,
admired for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets
in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of both Latin
literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his
introduction, "I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest
Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating
their characters and evoking the essence of their work." The poets
are Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and
Juvenal. Highet sketches the stories of the poets' lives and fills
in the historical background, while offering crisp modern
translations of their finest work and memorably vivid descriptions
of the natural world. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam
of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry-altogether
an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.
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