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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	Juni 1994
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
	POETRY / General / Poetry / poems by individual poets / Poetry by individual poets
ISBN:	9780198144977
EAN-Code:	9780198144977
Verlag:	Oxford Academic
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Oxford World's Classics
Dimensionen:	H 225 mm / B 145 mm / D 19 mm
Gewicht:	432 gr
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Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c.50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds most immediate appeal for the twentieth century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry, and is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods - from ecstacy to suicidal despair. The son of an Umbrian landowner who fought on the wrong side in the Civil War after Caesar's murder, he lost his father and most of his family estate in boyhood and was brought up by his mother. He was able nevertheless to reject a legal or military career and to devote his life to the art of poetry, in which he is a far more self-conscious practitioner than most of the other Latin poets. His modern popularity was furthered in particular by Ezra Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius (1919).