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Book Synopsis The Pervigilium Veneris by : William M. Barton
Download or read book The Pervigilium Veneris written by William M. Barton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a critical edition of the Pervigilium Veneris with a Latin text, translation and commentary. This late-antique poem, the 'Vigil of Venus', is of unknown date and authorship. It exists in four heavily corrupted manuscripts, including the Codex Salmasianus, as part of a collection of later Latin poetry compiled around the 6th Century AD. Considerable attention has been paid to the piece since its first edition in the 16th century, largely on account of its singularity, mysterious origins and enigmatic final stanza, in which the poet suddenly bursts into the piece lamenting his 'lost muse'. Despite this scholarly interest, much work remained to be done in order to arrive at a more solid text of the poem and a more complete understanding of its meaning. This new edition, with detailed commentary notes and a full introduction to the historical and literary contexts of the poem, furthers our knowledge by offering new perspectives and analysis, incorporating existing scholarship and reviving ideas that had previously been set aside.
Book Synopsis The Vigil of Venus; And Other Poems by "Q" by : Arthur Quiller-Couch
Download or read book The Vigil of Venus; And Other Poems by "Q" written by Arthur Quiller-Couch and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up by : A. Booth
Download or read book Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up written by A. Booth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and students, chapters are free-standing and can be read in any order.
Download or read book Decline and Fall written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-01-01T17:32:52Z with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Pennyfeather is a second-year theology student who, as a result of mistaken identity, has his “education discontinued for personal reasons.” He ends up as a schoolmaster at a fourth-rate school, hired despite not meeting any of the qualifications in their advertisement. He there encounters a cornucopia of eccentric characters, including another master who has a wooden leg, a former clergyman with capital-D Doubts, and a servant who tells everyone he’s rich, but with a different tale for each about why he’s posing as a servant. Paul’s time at school leads to romance with a student’s mother, and that in turn leads to enormous complications in Paul’s life. Inspired in part by his own experiences in school and as a schoolmaster, Evelyn Waugh’s first published novel, Decline and Fall, is a dark and occasionally farcical satire of British college life. It’s something of a perverse coming-of-age story, subverting the expected journey and ending that the archetype usually demands. Shining a devastating light on many of the societal struggles of post-WWI Britain, Waugh took his novel’s title from another work that revealed the ineluctable descent of a great society: Gibbons’ The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Waugh issued a new edition of Decline and Fall in 1960 that contained restored text that was removed by his publisher from the first edition. This Standard Ebooks edition follows the first edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Book Synopsis Latin Literature by : Gian Biagio Conte
Download or read book Latin Literature written by Gian Biagio Conte and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-11-19 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the 1000 year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. It offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors.
Book Synopsis Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome (Second Edition) by : Stephen Bertman
Download or read book Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome (Second Edition) written by Stephen Bertman and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erotic desire is as old as the human race and erotic literature as old as civilization. With bold, new translations, the author presents and discusses some of the most beautiful, stirring expressions of erotic desire from the ancient world of Greece and Rome, reaching across three thousand years of history to tap into the many kinds of passion we still know today: new or seasoned, obsessive or unrequited, heterosexual or homosexual, noble or illicit. Students learn the cultural events that led to a grand flourish of erotic poetry in Greece and Rome during the Archaic and Hellenistic periods, as well as the "Golden Age of Rome." Readers traverse the varied works of over 35 different poets: from the epic interludes of Homer and Vergil to the personal lyrics of Sappho and Catullus, from the playful admonitions of Ovid to the dark elegies of Propertius, from a woman's meditations on romance scribbled on a fragile papyrus in Egypt to anonymous verses about lost love scrawled on a crumbling wall in Pompeii. By introducing the reader to the greatest poets of the ancient world, this compelling collection demonstrates why ancient love poems have stood the test of time and continue to resonate with contemporary audiences. Complete with introductions, cultural context, and engaging analysis for each selected work, along with thought-provoking questions to stimulate classroom discussion, Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome is an ideal choice for survey courses in classics, world literature, humanities, sexuality, and gender studies.
Book Synopsis Landor's Cleanness by : Adam Charles Roberts
Download or read book Landor's Cleanness written by Adam Charles Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleanness, both in the sense of a neoclassical stylistic purity and of an individual moral and political probity, was centrally important to Walter Savage Landor's writing, both in his prose and poetry. At the same time, this commitment to purity was contaminated in a variety of eloquent and complicating uncleannesses: his own fiery temper and frequent rages; his sometimes scurrilous and sexually explicit Latin poems; and the innovative, compacted, proto-Modernist verse style of works such as his epic Gebir, as stylistically-tangled and potent a poem ever produced in the Romantic era. The present study, the first comprehensive study of Landor's writing for nearly half a century, addresses the whole of Landor's prodigious output over the seven decades of his writing life, in verse, prose, and drama, in English and Latin: from the brief lyrics by which (if at all) he is remembered today up to his idylls, tragedies, and epics; from his pamphlets and essays to historical novels like Pericles and Aspasia and the textual colossus of the Imaginary Conversations. 'Cleanness' becomes the organising principle by which this heterogeneous and multivocal body of work is read. At once a survey of Landor's output and life, a critically engaged reading of his work and an interrogation of the principles of poetry itself, Landor's Cleanness seeks to reconfigure the map of Romantic and Victorian writing, and move Landor's reputation at least some way in the direction of the eminence he once enjoyed: as a major writer of his time, both intensely characteristic of the nineteenth-century and startlingly relevant to the twenty-first.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich by : Dulwich College
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich written by Dulwich College and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Oxford University Press by : Oxford University Press
Download or read book Oxford University Press written by Oxford University Press and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eclectic Magazine by : John Holmes Agnew
Download or read book The Eclectic Magazine written by John Holmes Agnew and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the library by : Dulwich coll
Download or read book Catalogue of the library written by Dulwich coll and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ezra Pound and Roman Poetry: A Preliminary Survey by : Peter Davidson
Download or read book Ezra Pound and Roman Poetry: A Preliminary Survey written by Peter Davidson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound and Roman Poetry is an examination of a crucial phase in the development of Pound as translator and, therefore, of creative translation in the twentieth century. The book provides a survey of Pound's attempt to appropriate the poetry of Classical Rome, by tracing the histories of the poet's involvement with Horace, Virgil, Catullus, Ovid and Propertius, in order to express his own marginal position within London during the First World War. No extensive critical discussion is attempted, but attention is given to Pound's critical writings on the Latin poets as well as his translations from their work. Dr Davidson also treats other aspects of Pound's problematic relation to the Classical Tradition: the use and abuse of dictionaries; Laforgue and Baudelaire as a third term haunting Pound's translations; the difficult monolith of English classicism; the invention of an oppositional romanitas. It is hoped that this work may encourage others to produce the comprehensive survey which Pound's sustained and Protean relationship to the classical languages would appear to demand. Pound's readings of Latin poetry are inevitably readings also of English poetry, in the context of England, and particularly London, in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis T.S. Eliot & Salvador Espriu by : Dídac Llorens Cubedo
Download or read book T.S. Eliot & Salvador Espriu written by Dídac Llorens Cubedo and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro estudia detalladamente las obras de dos poetas modernos prototípicos: T. S. Eliot y Salvador Espriu. Su imaginario es comparable, puesto que se proyectaba desde su experiencia y cosmovisión personal así como desde su profundo conocimiento de la tradición literaria. Ambos revelan los paralelismos entre los contextos históricos y culturales en los que se crearon sus poemas y ejemplifican su propósito como poetas a la hora de preservar la tradición formada por sus predecesores y a la hora de suscribirse de un modo significativo a ella. El estudio de Dídac Llorens Cubedo lleva al lector a través de un viaje desde el árido desierto o la sórdida ciudad moderna hasta la paz imprecisa de un jardín ideal, desde las restricciones de lo secular hasta el todo sin trabas e intemporal imaginado por Eliot y Espriu, dos gigantes de la poesía.
Book Synopsis Epigrams from the Anthologia Latina by :
Download or read book Epigrams from the Anthologia Latina written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new scholarly edition consists of the Latin text, with translation and detailed commentary, of a sequence of epigrams from the Anthologia Latina (Shackleton Bailey 78-188). The introduction discusses whether these epigrams constitute a unified collection and are the work of a single author, examines their likely date and place of composition – which, it is argued, is North Africa under Vandal rule –, and sets them in their cultural context. The line-by-line commentary covers issues of literary, linguistic and historical significance. Although text and interpretation of these pieces present frequent difficulties, the author confirms that they make up a fascinating collection of considerable importance and merit, contrary to the low reputation generally associated with the Anthologia Latina. The book will be of great interest to students of Latin literature and language in general, the epigram tradition in particular, and the culture of Vandal Africa.
Book Synopsis Expurgating the Classics by : Stephen Harrison
Download or read book Expurgating the Classics written by Stephen Harrison and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection on expurgation in the Classics, exploring the strategies used to deal with obscene and other textual material in conflict with post-classical values.
Book Synopsis The Owl of Minerva by : James Laughlin
Download or read book The Owl of Minerva written by James Laughlin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The March of Literature by : Ford Madox Ford
Download or read book The March of Literature written by Ford Madox Ford and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 900-page survey of world literature, From Confucius' Day to Our Own (as the subtitle reads), was the last book written by Ford Madox Ford, one of the seminal figures of the modernist period. Written for general readers rather than scholars and first published in 1938, The March of Literature is a working novelist's view of what is valuable in literature, and why. Convinced that scholars and teachers give a false sense of literature, Ford brings alive the pleasures of reading by writing about books he is passionate about. Beginning at the beginning--with ancient Egyptian and Chinese literature and the Bible--Ford works his way through classical literature, the writings of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, continuing up to the major writers of his own day like Ezra Pound, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad. With his encyclopedic reading and expertise in the techniques of writing, Ford is a reliable and entertaining guide. Ford also includes a chapter on publishers and booksellers, noting the key roles they play in literature's existence. Novelist Alexander Theroux ( Darconville's Cat, An Adultery) has written an insightful introduction for this reissue, the first time this monumental book has been made available in paperback.
