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020			_a9781590173381
082			_a871.0922 _bHIG
100			_aHighet, Gilbert
245			_aPoets in a landscape
260			_bNew York Review Books, _c2010 _aNew York :
300			_axii, 276 p. ; _c21 cm
365			_b1299.00 _cINR _d00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aGilbert 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.
650			_aLatin poetry
650			_aHistory and criticism
650			_aLandscape - In literature
650			_aItaly
650			_aDescription and travel
650			_aHomes and haunts
650			_aRome Empire
650			_aIntellectual life
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