Roman Poets in Modern Guise: The Reception of Roman Poetry Since World War I

by Theodore Ziolkowski

Identifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American, German, and French poets.

Analogies with Rome have been a powerful motif in American thought - and poetry - since the Founding Fathers. They resurged in the twentieth century, and especially after World War II, when the US saw its mission as analogous to that of Augustan Rome - a theme conspicuous in Robert Frost's poem for the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140778
• ISBN13: 9781640140776
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"