Author: David Shephard GarlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description
Martial in English
Author: MartialPublisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
"In almost 1,600 epigrams, written in styles ranging from the lyrical to the pornographic, Martial (c. 40-c. 103CE) painted a definitive picture of everyday life, society and sexuality in ancient Rome. His influence on English literature, both direct and indirect, has been immense." "From Elizabethan times, writers like Jonson, Herrick, Cowley and Byron translated (or adapted to the London of their day) Martial's portraits of poseurs, prostitutes and philosophers, legacy hunters and social climbers. His urbanity and sharply polished wit helped inspire Pope's heroic couplets and Swift's savage irony. Although Romantics and Victorians tended to react against Martial's obscenity and fulsome flattery of his imperial masters, he always retained a reputation as an underground classic and then became an important model for Ezra Pound. Recent poets, as J. P. Sullivan and A. J. Boyle explain in their Introduction, have also found in his work 'a fully realized, if sometimes sombre world, which alternately fascinates and disquiets'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Oxford Learner's Thesaurus
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780194752022
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
"Contains the Oxford learner's thesaurus, printable topic maps, exercices, study pages and thesaurus trainer"--Étiquette.
English Martial Arts
Author: Terry BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9781898281290
Category : Martial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Instructions in a system of martial arts practiced and taught in England by the sixteenth century Company of Maisters.
Epigrams from Martial
Author: MartialPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Selected Epigrams of Martial
Author: MartialMartial's Epigrams
Author: Garry WillsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440633282
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
One of literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of Roman society and its emperors, and set a pattern that satirists have admired across the ages. For the first time, readers can enjoy an English translation of these rhymes that does not sacrifice the cleverly constructed effects of Martial's short and shapely thrusts. Martial's Epigrams "bespeaks a great scholar at play" (The New York Times Book Review), makes for addictive reading, and is a perfect, if naughty, gift. Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.
The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law
Author: David Shephard GarlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Martial's Epigrams Book Two
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195348200
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This edition provides an English translation of and detailed commentary on the second book of epigrams published by the Latin poet Marcus Valerius Martialis. The past ten years have seen a resurgence of interest in Martial's writings. But contemporary readers are in particular need of assistance when approaching these epigrams, and until now there has been no modern commentary dedicated to Book II. This new commentary carefully illuminates the allusions to people, places, things, and cultural practices of late first-century Rome that pervade Martial's poetry. It analyzes the epigrammatist's poems as literary creations, treating such topics as the structure of the individual poems and of the book as a whole, and the influence of earlier texts on Martial's language and themes.
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