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How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet
How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet
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Latin is very much alive in the poetry written by the great Latin poets, and this book is about their poetry, their language, and their culture. Fitzgerald shows the reader with little or no knowledge of the Latin language how it works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression and thought.
Moving between close analysis of particular Latin poems and more general discussions of Latin poets, literature, and society, Fitzgerald gives the un-Latined reader an insider's view of how Latin poetry feels and what makes it worth reading, even today. His book explores what can be said and done in
a poetry and a language that are both very different from English and yet have profoundly influenced it. He takes the reader through the whole range of Latin poetry from the trivial, obscene, and vicious, to the sublime, the passionate, and the uplifting. Individual chapters focus on particular
authors (such as Vergil and Horace) or on themes (love, hate, civil war), and together they explain why we should care about what the poets of ancient Rome had to say. If you have ever wondered what all the fuss was about, see for yourselves!
Author: William Fitzgerald
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/21/2013
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.75h x 5.56w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9780199657865
Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2014
Moving between close analysis of particular Latin poems and more general discussions of Latin poets, literature, and society, Fitzgerald gives the un-Latined reader an insider's view of how Latin poetry feels and what makes it worth reading, even today. His book explores what can be said and done in
a poetry and a language that are both very different from English and yet have profoundly influenced it. He takes the reader through the whole range of Latin poetry from the trivial, obscene, and vicious, to the sublime, the passionate, and the uplifting. Individual chapters focus on particular
authors (such as Vergil and Horace) or on themes (love, hate, civil war), and together they explain why we should care about what the poets of ancient Rome had to say. If you have ever wondered what all the fuss was about, see for yourselves!
Author: William Fitzgerald
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/21/2013
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.75h x 5.56w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9780199657865
Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2014
About the Author
William Fitzgerald is Professor of Latin at King's College, London.
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