18 books like Satirae

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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 Verse satire, Translations from Latin, Latin poetry, Latin literature

Satyricon Petronius · 1575 · ★ 3.8 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging An incomplete Roman novel believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius Arbiter. What remains of the novel is a picaresque story concerning the narrator’s battle to keep his lover, a handsome sixteen year old boy, away from his many rivals. Shares Latin Satire, Latin literature, Latin language materials, Latin language

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 Verse satire, Latin Satire, Latin poetry, Latin language materials

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 Verse satire, Latin Epistolary poetry, Latin poetry, Latin language

Q. Horatii Flacci opera Horace · 1498 · ★ 3.5 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares Latin Verse satire, Latin Epistolary poetry, Latin poetry, Latin language with this book.

Metamorphoses Ovid · 1479 · ★ 4.1 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Challenging The Metamorphoses is a narrative poem penned by the Roman poet Ovid. Widely considered to be his ultimate work, comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths. The poem portrays a history of the world from creation up to the deification of Julius Caesar. Metamorphoses is viewed as one of the most influential works in Western culture, inspiring authors such as Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and… Shares Latin Epistolary poetry, Latin literature, Latin language, English literature

Ovid with an English translation: Heroides and Amores Ovid · 1637 · ★ 2.0 · 523p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Index of proper names appended Shares Translations from Latin, Latin Epistolary poetry, Latin literature, English literature

Apocolocyntosis Seneca the Younger · 1729 · ★ 3.7 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares Latin Satire, Latin language materials, Latin language, Poetry with this book.

Apparition Poems Adam Fieled · 2006 · 6p · ≈ 12m · Light *Apparition Poems*, by American artist Adam Fieled, is an **epic in fragments**, and includes poems which run the formal and thematic gamut- sonnets, monologues, lyrics, meta-poems, and poems of philosophical inquiry. It was released as a Blazevox print book in 2010. Shares Epic poetry, Poetry

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

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 Epistolary poetry, Epic poetry, Latin language materials, Poetry

Petronius Petronius · 1913 · 418p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Latin Satire, Latin language materials with this book.

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

Poems Tu Fu · 1724 · 265p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us a tour of the life, each “chapter” of poems preceded by an introductory paragraph that situates us… Shares Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Satyrs upon the Jesuits John Oldham · 1681 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Translations from Latin, Latin literature, English literature with this book.

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary J.R.R. Tolkien · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's… Shares Epic poetry, English literature, 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 materials, Latin language, Poetry

Vitae excellentium imperatorum Cornelius Nepos · 1594 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares Latin literature, Latin language materials, Latin language, Biography & Memoir with this book.

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