Poetry

Embrace your Roman muse!. As a learner of Latin, you want to experience the Roman world by reading its writers in their original language. But you may be unsure where to begin in the classical canon or you may worry that your Latin skills are insufficient to tackle authentic texts. Requiring only a grounding in the basics, Beginning Latin Poetry Reader lets you explore the rich and diverse range of Latin verse, including epics, comedies, satires, lyric poetry, and even graffiti! Inside you'll find seventy selections from authors of the early Republic such as Plautus and Terrance as well as those of the Golden and Silver Ages such as Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal--all supported by helpful footnotes and English translations. This book also includes a clear overview of Latin syntax and the metrics of its verse, a glossary of all Latin words found in the readings, and a time line showing the historical and literary context of each author. Lose yourself in:.:.; the sparkling comedies of Plautus.; the intimate love poetry of Catullus.; the majestic hexameters of Vergil.; the elegant lyricism of Horace.; the refined sensuality of Ovid.; the compelling satires of Juvenal.; the bristly epigrams of Martial. more...

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This is a new translation of Homer's epic about Odysseus and his encounters with both natural and divine forces on the ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. It contains an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. more...

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Here, in one compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 bets love poems ever written by 100 of the world's greatest poets. This essential anthology is ideal for the romantic-and will inspire any cynic. The poets included range throughout the history of world literature: from the Classics (Sappho, Catullus) and Renaissance (Shakespeare, Donne, Dante) to the Romantics (Shelly, Keats, Wordsworth) and 20th century giants (Frost, Lorca, Graves), right down to the present day (Viorst, Patchen, Neruda). Each poem features a brief introduction, which details the poet's life history as well as the poem's significance more...

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Maria began writing Poetry seriously in August 2006. Her collection of poems depicts an insight into real life through her own eyes, with an eclectic mix of diverse life experiences gleaned from her own inner world. Such emotional expressions and feelings are familiar to us all, as we are able to identify with this through her work. Her modern collection will provide joy and enlightenment to all, through her chromatic expressions, which is enough to replenish the dull and depressed and afford them a feeling filled with life enhancing and uplifting vitality. more...

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In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the world’s oldest epic, award-winning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to re-creating the power it had over its original listeners more than four thousand years ago in the ancient Near East. more...

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