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How to Read a Latin Poem - If You Can't Read Latin Yet (Hardcover)
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How to Read a Latin Poem - If You Can't Read Latin Yet (Hardcover)
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Latin is very much alive in the poetry written by the great Latin
poets, and this book is about their poetry, their language, and
their culture. Fitzgerald shows the reader with little or no
knowledge of the Latin language how it works as a unique vehicle
for poetic expression and thought. Moving between close analysis of
particular Latin poems and more general discussions of Latin poets,
literature, and society, Fitzgerald gives the un-Latined reader an
insider's view of how Latin poetry feels and what makes it worth
reading, even today. His book explores what can be said and done in
a poetry and a language that are both very different from English
and yet have profoundly influenced it. He takes the reader through
the whole range of Latin poetry from the trivial, obscene, and
vicious, to the sublime, the passionate, and the uplifting.
Individual chapters focus on particular authors (such as Vergil and
Horace) or on themes (love, hate, civil war), and together they
explain why we should care about what the poets of ancient Rome had
to say. If you have ever wondered what all the fuss was about, see
for yourselves!
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