Later Emperors
Later Emperors is four poems, each of which approaches Roman history from a very different perspective. It is also four voices, each one concerned with the living and the dead: voices of historians and moralists, voices of great (and not so great) emperors. Jones has written a book which is all the more for our time because it looks so clearly at other times and identifies in them familiar patterns, difficulties, ambitions and desires. History becomes a crystal ball in which the past chides the future, the same mistakes predicted and made again, the same injustices repeated. The Byzantine historians Michael Psellos and Anna Komnene reveal the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78410-911-0
- EAN: 9781784109110
- Produktnummer: 33488686
- Verlag: Carcanet
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 414 KB
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Greek-Canadian poet Evan Jones lives in Manchester. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2003), was a finalist for the Governor-General's Literary Award for Poetry. He co-edited Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010) and his British debut, Paralogues, was published by Carcanet in 2012.
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