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Roman Odes, Elegies & Epigrams

Peter Washington Christopher Marlowe Johannes Pine

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Everyman's Library
16 October 1997
The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory, at a banquet or at a public festival. With a freshness that belie the nearly two thousand years that separate us Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Propertius and Catullus write movingly of the pleasures of love, of wine, of nature and the joys of pastoral life, a city and its contrasts, of friendship and of death. This edition brings together an exceptional selection with translations by Christpoher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Robert Herrick, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Alfred Tennyson, A. E. Houseman and Rudyard Kipling. This edition is illustrated with the magnificent classical engravings of Johannes Pine's great edition of Horace of 1737. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today. Horace's ode iii, tr. by John Dryen
Illustrated by:   Johannes Pine
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Imprint:   Everyman's Library
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 166mm,  Width: 115mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   228g
ISBN:   9781857157345
ISBN 10:   1857157346
Series:   Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  A / AS level
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Editor's Biography. Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman Library's Pocket Poets series, including Love Poems, Erotic Poems and Poems of Sleep and Dreams

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