How to Read a Latin Poem
If You Can't Read Latin Yet
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 August 2016
- ISBN 9780198788126
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 216x136x15 mm
- Weight 348 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is a book about poetry, language, and classical antiquity, and explains to the reader with little or no Latin how the language works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression. Fitzgerald guides the reader through samples of Latin poetry to give a sense of how the individual poems feel in Latin and what makes Latin poetry worth reading.
MoreLong description:
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 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!
The book can be warmly recommended to all curious about Roman poetry, even to those who have no intention of learning (or remembering) Latin any time soon.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Guide to the Pronunciation of Latin
Prelude: To the Reader
Love, and a Genre
Hate, Mockery, and the Physical World
Horace: The Sensation of Mediocrity
Vergil: The Unclassical Classic
Lucan and Seneca: Poets of Apocalypse
Science Fiction: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Ovid's Metamorphoses
Epilogue
Guide to Further Reading
Glossary
