How to Read a Latin Poem

If You Can't Read Latin Yet

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William Fitzgerald

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Hardback

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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!

Author Biography:

William Fitzgerald is Professor of Latin at King's College, London.

Release date Australia

February 21st, 2013

Author

William Fitzgerald

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

290

Dimensions

147x221x29

ISBN-13

9780199657865

Product ID

20620252

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