Latin Poetry

Author : Gabriel Nocchi Macedo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780472132393
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Latin Poetry Books written by Gabriel Nocchi Macedo and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the invention of printing, all forms of writing were done by hand. For a literary text to circulate among readers, and to be transmitted from one period in time to another, it had to be copied by scribes. As a result, two copies of an ancient book were different from one another, and each individual book or manuscript has its own history. The oldest of these books, those that are the closest to the time in which the texts were composed, are few, usually damaged, and have been often neglected in the scholarship. Ancient Latin Poetry Books presents a detailed study of the oldest manuscripts still extant that contain texts by Latin poets, such as Virgil, Terence, and Ovid. Analyzing their physical characteristics, their script, and the historical contexts in which they were produced and used, this volume shows how manuscripts can help us gain a better understanding of the history of texts, as well as of reading habits over the centuries. Since the manuscripts originated in various places of the Latin-speaking world, Ancient Latin Poetry Books investigates the readership and reception of Latin poetry in many different contexts, such schools in the Egyptian desert, aristocratic circles in southern Italy, and the Christian élite in late antique Rome. The research also contributes to our knowledge about the use of writing and the importance of the written text in antiquity. This is an innovative approach to the study of ancient literature, one that takes the materiality of texts into consideration.

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374533180
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry written by Ilan Stavans and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.

Author : Cecilia Vicuña
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195124545
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry written by Cecilia Vicuña and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.

Author : William Fitzgerald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199657866
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Latin Poem written by William Fitzgerald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about poetry, language, and classical antiquity, and explains to the reader with little or no Latin how the language works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression. Fitzgerald guides the reader through samples of Latin poetry to give a sense of how the individual poems feel in Latin and what makes Latin poetry worth reading.

Author : Richard A. LaFleur
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780801301339
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin Poetry written by Richard A. LaFleur and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This supplementary reader for first and second year students presents a brief sampling from some of the most popular Latin poetry.

Author : Anthony John Woodman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521205328
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality and Pleasure in Latin Poetry written by Anthony John Woodman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1974 study of Latin poetry designed to encourage fresh readings and to illustrate critical approaches to the literature.

Author : Jacopo Sannazaro
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674034068
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin Poetry written by Jacopo Sannazaro and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sannazaro (1456-1530) is most famous for having written the first pastoral romance in European literature, the Arcadia (1504). But after this work, he devoted himself entirely to Latin poetry modeled on his beloved Virgil. In addition to his epic The Virgin Birth (1526), he also composed Piscatory Eclogues, an adaption of the eclogue form.

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421402297
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton's Latin Poems written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, esteemed poet and translator David R. Slavitt brings to life John Milton’s Latin poetry with deft, imaginative modern English translations. While Milton is recognized as one of the most learned English poets in history, his Latin poetry is less well known. Slavitt’s careful rendering brings Milton’s Latin poems—many written in his late teens—into the present. He keeps true to the style of the originals, showing Milton’s maturing poetic voice and the freedom he found working in Latin. On the Gunpowder Plot O, sly Guy Fawkes, you plotted against your king and the British lords, but did you intend to be kind and make up for your malice in this thing with at least a show of piety? Do we find an intention, perhaps, of sending the members of court up to the sky in a chariot made of fire the way Elijah traveled. Or do I distort the simple wickedness of your desire? Featuring an introduction by Gordon Teskey, this comprehensive English-language collection of Milton’s Latin poems pays due respect to a master. Poetry lovers, Milton fans, and scholars of either will welcome, enjoy, and learn from this work.

Author : Gaius Valerius Catullus
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781853267789
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems written by Gaius Valerius Catullus and published by Wordsworth Editions Limited. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young man, Cattullus moved to Rome and conducted a passionate affair with a woman whom he addresses as Lesbia. The Lesbia poems depict the progress of this relationship from first, careless rapture to final rupture.

Author : Edward Courtney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199265794
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fragmentary Latin Poets written by Edward Courtney and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand fully the development of Latin poetry, one has to consider not only the prominent figures whose works survive entire but also the writers known to us only in fragments, usually small, from quotations. The fragments of the non-dramatic poets have been collected by Baehrens, Morel,and Buchner, but only a few have ever received a commentary. This book revises the texts, taking advantage of much earlier work now largely forgotten, and provides the necessary interpretative and illustrative material. By building up, wherever possible, a picture of each writer, Professor Courtneyplaces them in relation to the development of Latin poetry and thus gathers together information at present widely scattered and not easy to locate. While omitting some material which does not contribute to the focus of the book, he adds some writers not usually included in this corpus -particularly Tiberianus, the so-called De Bello Actiaco and the minor works of Ennius.