Elegiae
About this book
Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c.50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds most immediate appeal for the twentieth century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry, and is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods - from ecstacy to suicidal despair.
The son of an Umbrian landowner who fought on the wrong side in the Civil War after Caesar's murder, he lost his father and most of his family estate in boyhood and was brought up by his mother. He was able nevertheless to reject a legal or military career and to devote his life to the art of poetry, in which he is a far more self-conscious practitioner than most of the other Latin poets. His modern popularity was furthered in particular by Ezra Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius (1919).
Subjects
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- concordances
- elegiac poetry
- elegiac poetry, history and criticism
- elegiac poetry, latin--translations into english
- élégies latines
- english elegiac poetry
- english prose literature
- glossaries
- glossaries, vocabularies
- history and criticism
- in literature
- language
- latin elegiac poetry
- latin language
- latin language, glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- latin language materials
- latin love poetry
- latin poetry
- latin poetry, history and criticism
- latin poetry, translations into english
- literatura latina
- love poetry
- love poetry, latin--translations into english
- man-woman relationships
- man-woman relationships--rome--poetry
- pa6645.e5 m8
- poésie d'amour latine
- poésie élégiaque latine
- poetry
- poetry, collections
- poetry (poetic works by one author)
- propertius, sextus
- rome
- rome in literature
- technical education
- traductions anglaises
- translations
- translations from latin
- translations in french
- translations into english
- translations into englishpropertius, sextus
- translations into french
- translations into german
- translations into modern greek
- translations into portuguese
- translations into russian
- translations into spanish
- universities and colleges
- word frequency