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Propertius in love : the elegies
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ISBN: 1282359495 9786612359491 0520935845 1597348368 9780520935846 0585419612 9780585419619 9780520228788 0520228782 9780520228795 0520228790 9781282359499 9781597348362 6612359498 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.

Green thoughts, green shades : essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric
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ISBN: 0520935713 1282359460 9786612359460 159734642X 9780520935716 1417522860 9781417522866 0520214552 9780520214552 9780520227521 0520227522 9781597346429 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the greatest lyric poets writing in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Written by people who spend much of their time thinking in verse and about verse, these original essays herald the return of the early modern lyric as crucial to understanding the present moment of poetry in the United States. This work provides fascinating insights into what today's poets find of special interest in their forebears. In addition, these discussions shed light on the contributors' own poetry and offer compelling clues to how the poetry of the past continues to inform that of the present.

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