The Poems |
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| Author:
| Propertius, Sextus |
| Translator:
| Lee, Guy |
| Introduction by:
| Lyne, Oliver |
| Series title: | Oxford World's Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-283573-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1999 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $13.95 |
Book Description:
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Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for the twentieth-century reader. His poetry centres on a helpless infatuation for his sinister mistress, Cynthia, and it is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods - from ecstasy to suicidal despair.
Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for the twentieth-century reader. His poetry centres on a helpless infatuation for his sinister mistress, Cynthia, and it is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods - from ecstasy to suicidal despair.