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The Poems

Propertius
Translated with notes by Guy Lee
Introduction by Oliver Lyne

July 2009

ISBN: 9780199555925

240 pages
Paperback
196x129mm

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Oxford World's Classics

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Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for the twentieth-century reader. His poetry centres on a helpless infatuation for his sinister mistress, Cynthia, and it is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods - from ecstasy to suicidal despair.

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Propertius

Translated with notes by Guy Lee, Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge
Introduction by Oliver Lyne, Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford

Reviews

"Sensual, bitchy, soppy, satirical, this great sequence of love-hate poems lives again in Lee's vivid versions. Not just a scintillating survey of erotic agony and ecstacy, but a witty glimpse of the smart set in Rome." - New Statesman & Society

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