Elegi
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).
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Berapa lama waktu membaca Elegiae?
Sekitar ≈ 3 h 13 m — 174 halaman, dengan asumsi kira-kira 250 kata per halaman pada 225 kata per menit.
Berapa halaman Elegiae?
174 halaman pada edisi yang paling banyak dibaca.
Apa genre Elegiae?
Buku ini ada di rak Poetry.
Apakah Elegiae domain publik?
Ya — bebas dibaca dan dibagikan.
Siapa tokoh utama dalam Elegiae?
Tokoh utamanya termasuk Sextus Propertius.
Di mana latar Elegiae?
Berlatar di Rome.
Siapa penulis Elegiae?
Sextus Propertius.
Di mana bisa membaca Elegiae secara gratis online?
Buku ini domain publik — baca gratis di 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.”