Epic and Epigram: Two Elizabethan Entertainments

by David R. Slavitt

Book Overview

David R. Slavitt's affectionate translations of epigrams by sixteenth-century Welsh academic John Owen transmute a careful selection of the writer's work into a vision of life, and in so doing bring Owen into conversation with the present day. Pithy, quick, favoring balance and economy over elaboration of style, the epigram is difficult in any language; that Owen mastered it in a language other than his own attests to his immense talent. Owen's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807121525
• ISBN13: 9780807121528
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"