Élégies
About this book
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).
Profil du lecteur
3.9/5 · 201 lecteurs · 174 pages · ≈ 3 h 13 m · Très exigeant
Combien de temps pour lire Elegiae ?
Environ ≈ 3 h 13 m — 174 pages, à raison d'environ 250 mots par page et 225 mots par minute.
Combien de pages fait Elegiae ?
174 pages dans son édition la plus lue.
Quel est le genre de Elegiae ?
Il se trouve dans les rayons Poetry.
Elegiae est-il dans le domaine public ?
Oui — il est libre de lecture et de partage.
Qui sont les personnages principaux de Elegiae ?
Les personnages principaux incluent Sextus Propertius.
Où se déroule Elegiae ?
L'histoire se déroule à Rome.
Qui a écrit Elegiae ?
Sextus Propertius.
Où lire Elegiae gratuitement en ligne ?
Il est dans le domaine public — lisez-le gratuitement sur Open Library. Open Library
“CYNTHIA was the first To capture with her eyes my pitiable self: Till then I was free from desire's contagion.”