Guy Lee Translator (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A trade paperback in excellent condition, clean with a tight binding and an unmarked text.From a private smoke free collection.Shipping within 24 hours, with a tracking number and delivery confirmation.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 7.64x5.04x0.55 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 7.64x5.04x0.55 inches. In Stock.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xxviii,195pp, owner's bookplate on endpaper, text clean and sound, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper; ISBN: 0199537577.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Ex library paperback; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1975 by Guy Lee, St. John's College, Cambridge. Covers are creased/worn otherwise a good clean copy throughout. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-6B*.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First US edition. Cloth and boards with dust jacket. Fine copy in very good dust jacket. Wood engraving of myrtle by Reynolds Stone on the sectional title pages and the same image blind-stamped on the front board, a nice subtle touch. Jacket for the American edition designed by Jules Madoff. Jacket is tanned in a strip at the top of the back panel, front panel has a short tear at the top left corner next to the spine and a few nicks along the top edge. "A virile and colloquial rendering . . . The only complete modern translation . . . " from the front of the dust jacket. Bilingual edition, Latin and English in facing pages. A very readable, unstilted translation. With notes, a biography of Ovid, and commentary on his own translation by Lee. Ovid was frankly lustful and, in modern parlance, a player, with little of the begging coyness of the love poetry of English poets like Andrew Marvell. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket is complete but rubbed and worn at edges and corners. Pages are unmarked and uncreased. Sound overall. Publisher's note: Aulus Persius Flaccus (A.D. 34-62) wrote in racy conversational Latin six satires countering contemporary vice with Stoic morality; he died young. This is not easy poetry, with its sudden shifts of tone, switches of speaker and situation, vivid evocation of the everyday roman background, and confident handling of philosophical positions. Size: 22.6 x 14.8 x 1 cm. 177 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Persius -- Translations into English; Verse satire, Latin; Verse satire, Latin -- Translations into English; ISBN/EAN: 9780905205373. Add. Inventory No: 260210ANH009869.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.