Poets In A Landscape
Book 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…
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1 author picked Poets In A Landscape as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Classics scholar Highet supplies a tour de force of evocation, placing great poets of Ancient Rome in geographic as well as literary contexts. He explores their physical and imaginative habitats, visiting the regions of Italy from which they originated.
He analyzes their character and their poetry, drawing direct parallels that today may be considered slightly dubious by the scholarly community. And so what?
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