Description: Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Poets in a Landscape
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Topic: Special Interest / Literary, Europe / Italy, Poetry, Ancient & Classical
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2010
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Travel, Poetry
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Author: Gilbert Highet
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
