Gilbert Highet's Poets in a Landscape
October 26th 2007 10:29
It both saddens and gladdens me to report that Amazon has many copies avaiable of
Gilbert Highet
Poets in a Landscape
This saddens me cos it means several people did not appreciate what a treasure their copy was but this is also good news cos it means I can recommend the book to my readers and hope you will not have too much trouble finding a copy!
This book was written by a british classical scholar back in the 1950s and is a portrait of Latin poets such as Horace Tibullus Ovis and others and the landscapes and countryside that shaped them and their poetry. Highet arrived to Italy and to the areas and twons they came from and describes for us ancient Rome and Roman towns and sites and how they appear today. Though his today was the 1950s! Undoubtedly the scenery described has changed again!
It is a delightful book dated but useful and enjoyable.
Five stars and more !!!
As well as the travel descriptions there are also many excellent translations of poems.
He covers all the major pets and their home towns: Catullus and Verona, Virgil and Mantua, Propertius and Umbria, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and lastly Juvenal the satirist.
A must have for classicists and poets!
Gilbert Highet
Poets in a Landscape
This saddens me cos it means several people did not appreciate what a treasure their copy was but this is also good news cos it means I can recommend the book to my readers and hope you will not have too much trouble finding a copy!
This book was written by a british classical scholar back in the 1950s and is a portrait of Latin poets such as Horace Tibullus Ovis and others and the landscapes and countryside that shaped them and their poetry. Highet arrived to Italy and to the areas and twons they came from and describes for us ancient Rome and Roman towns and sites and how they appear today. Though his today was the 1950s! Undoubtedly the scenery described has changed again!
It is a delightful book dated but useful and enjoyable.
Five stars and more !!!
As well as the travel descriptions there are also many excellent translations of poems.
He covers all the major pets and their home towns: Catullus and Verona, Virgil and Mantua, Propertius and Umbria, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and lastly Juvenal the satirist.
A must have for classicists and poets!
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