Beginning with simple expressions engraved on stone, these poems eventually encompassed nearly every theme we now associate with lyric poetry in English. Many of the finest are on love and would later exert a profound influence on Latin love poets and, thr..
From public bathhouses, latrines, and brothels to private dinner parties with lavish foods and wines, from the amphitheater's violent entertainment and the use and abuse of slaves to coddled lapdogs and parrots who spontaneously exclaim "Hail Caesar!"&mdas..
Publisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press Publication date: 1920 Subjects: Latin poetry Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get fr..
Written with epigrammatic wit and grace.' Kirkus Reviews'A sweeping luxuriant romp through the pre-Trafalgar life of Lady Hamilton. Her Pygmalion rescue from whoredom by the ineffable Charles Greville is wickedly told.' Sunday Times'Stacton is a magnificen..
It bridges the histories of botany, empire, and mind to take up the claim of objectivity as the dissolution of a discrete self and thus explores the mind''s movement toward and with the world. The poems in Light Light range from the epigrammatic ..
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