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Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus · 1554 · ★ 3.3 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Demanding Includes an introduction to this Roman poet, selections from his poetry, vocabulary and grammatical notes, and glossaries on meters and figures of speech. Shares: Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin Epigrams, Latin Love poetry, Latin poetry

Epigrams Marcus Valerius Martialis · 1615 · ★ 4.0 · 411p · ≈ 13h · Demanding It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in A.D. 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this collection record the broad spectacle of shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life - both public and private - in… Shares: Latin Epigrams, Latin Occasional verse, Latin language materials, Poetry

Tristia; Ex Ponto Ovid · 1892 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Shakespeare's favourite poet, deserves a place in the digital library of all lovers of classic literature. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Ovid, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual… Shares: Latin Love poetry, Latin poetry, Latin language materials, Poetry

Epigrammata Marcus Valerius Martialis · 1501 · ★ 4.0 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Demanding Despite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for decades, and the first ever to include a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the poet, who has often been criticised, unfairly, the authors argue, for obscenity and flattery of the Emperor Domitian. The… Shares: Latin Epigrams, Latin Occasional verse, Early works to 1800, Poetry

Tristia Ovid · 1574 · 103p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Shakespeare's favourite poet, deserves a place in the digital library of all lovers of classic literature. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Ovid, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual… Shares: Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin language materials, Poetry

Fasti Ovid · 1482 · ★ 3.8 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Demanding "One of the fullest and most enjoyable sources of information on Roman myth and religion, the Fasti is both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles and genres, comic, tragic, elegiac, epic and erotic. Yet many of them contain uncomfortable political echoes. Augustus tried to control his subjects by imposing his own version of history and annual… Shares: Latin poetry, Latin language materials, Love poetry, Poetry

Elegiae Sextus Propertius · 1780 · ★ 3.9 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Demanding 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… Shares: Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin Love poetry, Poetry

Silvae Publius Papinius Statius · 1472 · ★ 3.8 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Statius' Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 AD. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, sends thanks, admires a memorable scene. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct picture quality. Statius gives us in these impromptu poems clear images of Domitian's Rome. Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This… Shares: Latin Occasional verse, Latin language materials, Poetry

Satirae Juvenal · 1648 · ★ 3.9 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Demanding Bite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (34-62 CE) and Juvenal (writing about sixty years later). The latter especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries. Shares: Latin poetry, Latin language materials, Poetry

Heroides Ovid · 1502 · ★ 4.1 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Demanding The "autres ouvrages" of Bachet are, "Virginis Deiparæ ad Christvm filium. Epistola. Nec non, & alia quædam poëmatia", and "Rime toscane" Shares: Latin Love poetry, Latin language materials, Poetry

Odes Horace · 1635 · ★ 4.0 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Demanding This groundbreaking new translation of Horace's most widely read collection of poetry is rendered in modern, metrical English verse rather than the more common free verse found in many other translations. Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz adapts the Roman poet's rich and metrically varied poetry to English formal verse, reproducing the works in a way that maintains fidelity to the tone, timbre, and style of… Shares: Latin poetry, Latin language materials, Poetry

Feux Marguerite Yourcenar · 1973 · 129p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Feux () is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. Shares: Love poetry, Poetry

Sonette an Orpheus Rainer Maria Rilke · 1936 · 142p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares: Bilingual, Poetry Shares: Bilingual, Poetry

Satirae Horace · 1763 · ★ 5.0 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Demanding The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. Not as frequently translated as his Odes, in… Shares: Latin poetry, Latin language materials, Poetry

Ars Amatoria Ovid · 1494 · ★ 3.7 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Originally published Manchester: Carcanet, 2003. Shares: Latin Love poetry, Love poetry, Poetry

Poems William Butler Yeats · 1895 · ★ 3.4 · 135p · ≈ 4h · Challenging A collection of the poetry of W. B. Yeats, famed Irish poet whose early poems are strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and his later poems having more modernist leanings, although retaining the traditional forms rather than adopting free verse. Shares: Love poetry, Collections, Poetry

Poems Francis Thompson · 1893 · ★ 5.0 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging It is a poetry book. Francis Thompson, a poet of high thinking, 'of celestial vision', and of imaginings that found literary images of answering splendour, died in London in the winter of 1907. His life—always a fragile one—doubtless owed its prolongation to 'man's unconquerable mind', in him so invincible through all vicissitude that he seemed to add a new significance to Wordsworth's phrase. To… Shares: Collections, Poetry

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Les Contemplations est un recueil de poésie de Victor Hugo, publié en 1856. Il est composé de 158 poèmes rassemblés en six livres. La plupart de ces poèmes ont été écrits entre 1841 et 1855, mais les poèmes les plus anciens de ce recueil datent de 1830. Les Contemplations est un recueil du souvenir, de l’amour, de la joie mais aussi de la mort, du deuil et même d'une certaine foi mystique. Le… Shares: Poetry

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