18 books like Carmen 63

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Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus · 1554 · ★ 3.3 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Challenging 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 Epigrams, Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin Love poetry, Latin poetry

Epigrams Marcus Valerius Martialis · 1615 · ★ 4.0 · 411p · ≈ 13h · Challenging 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 Shares Latin Love poetry, Latin poetry, Latin language materials, Poetry with this book.

Epigrammata Marcus Valerius Martialis · 1501 · ★ 4.0 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Challenging 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

Fasti Ovid · 1482 · ★ 3.8 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Challenging "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

Tristia Ovid · 1574 · 103p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin language materials, Poetry with this book.

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

The Complete Poetical Works Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Charlotte Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the… Shares Poetry

Feux Marguerite Yourcenar · 1973 · 129p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares Love poetry, Poetry with this book.

Satirae Juvenal · 1648 · ★ 3.9 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Challenging 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

Silvae Publius Papinius Statius · 1472 · ★ 3.8 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Challenging 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

Elegiae Sextus Propertius · 1780 · ★ 3.9 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Challenging 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

Heroides Ovid · 1502 · ★ 4.1 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging 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

Marmion Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

Odes Horace · 1635 · ★ 3.4 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Challenging 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

Sonette an Orpheus Rainer Maria Rilke · 1936 · 142p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares Bilingual, Poetry with this book. Shares Bilingual, Poetry

The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss · 1957 · ★ 4.2 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat, who shows them some tricks and games. Includes a Latin-English glossary and a note on the verse form and rhythm. Shares Bilingual, Latin language materials, Poetry

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