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P. Vergilii Maronis opera Publius Vergilius Maro · 1532 · 610p · ≈ 20h · Demanding 4to. ff. [2] (blank), [1] (plates), [14] (prelims), pp. 246, 588, [192], ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: â4, ê4, î4, ô2, A-Z4, Aa-Gg4, Hh3, 2A-Z4, 2Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Zzz4, AAaa-DDdd4, EEee2, a-z4, aa4. Contemporary French calf. Gilt filet on boards’ edges. Gilded spine on 5 bars, red panel. Red edges. Signature “A.G.” on first blank. Manuscript note on second blank in French, stating this is a first… Shares Latin Pastoral poetry, Aeneas, Latin Epic poetry, Latin Didactic poetry

Aeneis Publius Vergilius Maro · 1592 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Challenging "Virgil's masterpiece of Latin poetry, a lively, dramatic poem of daring and adventure, of love and loss, of devotion and death. " Shares Aeneas, Latin Epic poetry, Latin Didactic poetry, Agriculture

The Georgics of Virgil translated by Thomas Neville, .. Publius Vergilius Maro · 1523 · ★ 4.0 · 91p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Virgil's classic poem extols the virtues of work, describes the care of crops, trees, animals, and bees, and stresses the importance of moral values. Shares Latin Pastoral poetry, Latin Didactic poetry, Latin poetry, Agriculture

Aeneidos Publius Vergilius Maro · 1517 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Aeneas, Latin Epic poetry, Latin language, Legends with this book.

Aeneid Publius Vergilius Maro · 1839 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Challenging i don't think anybody else has ever read this book without first being forced to learn latin. yet it is worth reading in translation .the setting, sicily, libya, italy some twenty-five hundred years ago comes alive as communities of farmers and small towns united by person-sized culture. the land, the government, the value of father-son, husband-wife bonds, sports, hand-to hand combat, all… Shares Aeneas, Latin Epic poetry, Legends, Poetry

Virgils Eclogues translated into English: by W.L. Gent Publius Vergilius Maro · 1556 · ★ 3.5 · 46p · ≈ 1h · Challenging "The Eclogues of Virgil gave definitive form to the pastoral mode, and these magically beautiful poems, so influential in so much subsequent literature, perhaps best exemplify what pastoral can do."--BOOK JACKET. "These songs made a world; it is a world all the more beautiful for being vulnerab1e to the intrusions of power and of natural calamity and loss."--BOOK JACKET. "A bilingual edition,… Shares Latin Pastoral poetry, Latin Didactic poetry, Agriculture, Country life

Pharsalia Lucan · 1486 · ★ 3.9 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Challenging "In this edition Professor Fantham offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the war between Caesar and Pompey: De bello civili. Book II presents all three leading figures - Cato, Caesar and Pompey - in speech and action. It expresses the moral and political dilemma of civil war and portrays Pompey's loss of authority during his withdrawal from… Shares Latin Epic poetry, Latin language, Early works to 1800, Poetry

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

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · 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

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 poetry, Latin language, Early works to 1800, Poetry

Carmina Horace · 1712 · ★ 4.0 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when - as has usually been the case - a single translator ventures to maneuver through Horace's infinite variety. Now for the first time, leading poets from America, England, and Ireland have collaborated to bring all 103 odes into… Shares Latin poetry, Latin language, 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, Poetry

Tristia; Ex Ponto Ovid · 1892 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Shares Latin Didactic poetry, Latin poetry, Poetry with this book.

Orpheus: myths of the world Padraic Colum · 1930 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Legends with this book.

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 Didactic poetry, Latin poetry, Poetry

The Toy-Shop; a Dramatick Satire Robert Dodsley · 1700 · 41p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares Early works to 1800 with this book.

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