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Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 276 pages. Summary; Using the poet's native Italian landscapes, Gilbert Highet recreates these poets "in situ" to evoke the essence of their work. His translations summon a land enchanted by presences - from Horace's beloved Tivoli to Ovid in the Abruzzi. Highet lets each poet tell his own story - their pleasures and agonies, passions and hates and above all their devotion to the natural world around them. Subjects; Poets, Latin - Homes and haunts. Latin poetry - History and criticism. Literary landmarks - Italy. Landscape in literature. Poets, Latin - Biography. Landscapes in literature. Poetry, Latin - History and criticism. Latin poetry. Classical Literature. Roman Period. Latin literature. Italy - Description and travel. Italy - Description and travel - Early works to 1800. Rome - In literature. Rome - Intellectual life. Italy - Description and travel - To 1500. Italy. Roman. Italy - Description and travel - (1945-1974). Poetry & poets. Latin ; Italy. Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors). Literary Criticism / Poetry. Literary Criticism / European / Italian. Literary Criticism / European / General. Poetry, Latin ; History and criticism ; Poets, Latin ; Biography. Ovid. Virgil. Horace. Juvenal. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.
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What a delight to have a new edition of this inspirational book. Highet, professor of classics, broadcaster and literary critic, was famous for his teaching. This book, first published in 1957, is propelled not just by his love for Latin poetry but by a powerful desire to communicate the details of that love, and a manifest skill in doing so. Horace, Catallus, Juvenal and others are conveyed as individuals; Rome as a city of 'boiling streets' to revel in or flee; the varying regional countryside as homeland or retreat. All this is achieved through the meticulous, imaginative use of sparse evidence. The scholarship is cautious but the teaching personal, so that history is enriched, not swamped, with anecdotes. No Latin is assumed, yet through his translations and precisely articulated explanations, Highet conveys the poets' linguistic brilliance and idiosyncrasies. Sadly, the slightly eccentric selection of grainy black and white photographs in the original have gone, and a map would really help. But there is compensation in Michael Putnam's brief, illuminating preface. (Guardian)
Highet loved the Latin poets with an obvious passion and his way with verse was second only to his sense of place. (Scotsman)
About the Author
Gilbert Highet (1906-1978) was a professor at both Oxford and Columbia. In the 1950s he hosted a radio program called People, Places and Books, which was carried by more than two hundred radio stations, and was a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club. He served as a literary critic for Harper's Magazine during the early 1950s and was the author of more than a dozen books, including works on literary history, essays, poems, and criticism.
Michael Putnam is the W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics at Brown University. His most recent book is The Virgilian Tradition, co-edited with Jan Ziolkowski.
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