The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius
It is good to have these supple, lucid renderings of Propertius which well capture the complexity of his brilliant elegies through another artist's virtuosity. Katz's translation should do much to preserve the reputation of one of Rome's most important and powerful poets for the present generation and beyond.--Michael C. J. Putnam, Brown UniversityThis work is a consummate labor of love, which has managed to translate the ageless sophistication of the Roman poet Propertius (50 to 16 BC) into the distracted dissonance of our own perilous times. Himself an accomplished poet, Vincent Katz has found both an idiom and a cadence specific to his mas…
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Weitere Autoren: Katz, Vincent (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-691-11582-5
- EAN: 9780691115825
- Produktnummer: 9909127
- Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 467 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.9 cm 717 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 53
- Gewicht: 717
Über den Autor
Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, art critic, and curator. He is the author of Charm, translations from the Latin of book I of the elegies of Sextus Propertius, as well as eight books of original poetry.
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