Lusus

by Robert Wells

Lusus is the Latin word for 'diversions', an appropriate title for this volume of classical poems, rooted in physical experience and in the occluded tradition of neo-Latin verse-writing, with its erotic and rural themes.The humanist allegiance in these poems transcends national boundaries.It is an allegiance, first of all, to language itself.
The 'Monte Gennaro Epigrams' at the heart of Lusus, composed in exacting hendecasyllabic pentameters,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857543823
• ISBN13: 9781857543827
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 64 Pages