| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes glossary. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-269) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A Guide to the pronunciation of Latin -- Prelude -- 1 Love, and a genre -- 2 Hate, mockery, and the physical world -- 3 Horace: the sensation of mediocrity -- 4 Vergil: the unclassical classic -- 5 Lucan and Seneca: poets of apocalypse -- 6 Science fiction: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Ovida's Metamorphoses -- Epilogue -- Guide to further reading. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Latin poetry -- History and criticism.
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Latin poetry. |
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Poetry -- Appreciation.
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Poetry -- Appreciation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: How to Read a Latin Poem. Oxford Univ Pr 2013 9780199657865 (OCoLC)795759765 |
| ISBN |
9780191632044 (electronic book) |
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019163204X (electronic book) |
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9780191745690 |
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0191745693 |
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9780199657865 |
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0199657866 |
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