How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet

by William Fitzgerald

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199657866
• ISBN13: 9780199657865
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.8"