Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | 871.0922 HIG (Browse shelf) | Available | 032757 |
869.342 SAR Elephant's journey | 869.342 SAR Blindness | 870.9003 AUE Literary language & its public in late Latin antiquity and in the Middle Ages | 871.0922 HIG Poets in a landscape | 873.01 MCD Aeneid | 874.01 HOR Complete Odes and Satires of Horace | 874.01 HOR Horace, the Odes : new translations by contemporary poets |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of both Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, "I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work." The poets are Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet sketches the stories of the poets' lives and fills in the historical background, while offering crisp modern translations of their finest work and memorably vivid descriptions of the natural world. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry-altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.
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