PROPERTIUS, SEXTUS

sĕkˈstəs prōpûrˈshəs, c.50 b.c.–c.16 b.c., Roman elegiac poet, b. Umbria. He was a member of the circle of Maecenas. A master of the Latin elegy, he wrote with vigor, passion, and sincerity.

See translations by C. Carrier (1963) and J. Warden (1972); studies by M. Platnauer (1951) and D. R. S. Bailey (1956).

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Propertius in Love: The Elegies
Book by David R. Slavitt, Sextus Propertius; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Elegiac Poetry, Latin--Translations Into English, Love Poetry, Latin--Translations Into English, Propertius, Sextus--Translations Into English
...own. Ezra Pounds Homage to Sextus Propertius (1917), on the other hand...The Manuscript Tradition of Propertius (Toronto, 1984). 2 See J. P. Sullivan, Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius: A Study in Creative Translation...
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Propertius: Modernist Poet of Antiquity
Book by D. Thomas Benediktson; Southern Illinois University Press, 1989
Subjects: Elegiac Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Imagist Poetry--History And Criticism, Love Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Modernism (Literature), Poetry, Modern--Roman Influences, Propertius, Sextus--Criticism And Interpretation, Propertius, Sextus--Influence, Rome (Italy)--In Literature
...we have. What is demanded for Propertius is a new approach that transcends...criticism, an approach treating Propertius as "anticlassicist," as La...pieces, called the Homage to Sextus Propertius . Propertius appealed to Pound...
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The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV
Book by Micaela Janan; University of California Press, 2001
Subjects: Desire In Literature, Elegiac Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--Rome, Propertius, Sextus--Elegiae--Liber 4--11, Psychoanalysis And Literature--Rome, Rome--In Literature
...60 Ponticus, 35 , 36 37 Posidonius, 170n18 Propertius Sextus Propertius : and Augustus conservatism, 54 ; and Plato...Symbolics failures, 98 ; and textual criticism of Propertius 4n5, 194n15 ; and Womans desire, 98 rhetoric...
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The Poems
Book by Guy Lee, Propertius; Clarendon Press, 1994
Subjects: Elegiac Poetry, Latin--Translations Into English, Love Poetry, Latin--Translations Into English, Man-Woman Relationships--Rome--Poetry, Propertius, Sextus--Translations Into English
...Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Propertius, Sextus. Elegiae. English. 1994 The poems/Propertius; translated with notes by Guy Lee...Includes bibliographical references . 1. Propertius, Sextus--Translations into English. 2...
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Masterpieces of Latin Literature: Terence: Lucretius: Catullus: Virgil: Horace: Tibullus: Propertius: Ovid: Petronius: Martial: Juvenal: Cicero: Caesar: Livy: Tacitus: Pliny the Younger: Apuleius; with Biographical Sketches and Notes
Book by Gordon Jennings Laing; Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1903
Subjects: Latin Literature--Translations Into English, Rome--Literary Collections
...youth, and not unknown to fame, 65 Whose heart has never felt a second flame. Oh, might that envied happiness be mine! 1 Sextus Pompeius had been defeated in a number of naval battles near Sicily. 2 Alexandria was taken in B. C. 30. 3 In Macedonia...
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Shades of Propertius
Journal article by Isaac Meyers; Parnassus : Poetry in Review, Vol. 31, 2009
Subjects: Discourse analysis, Essays, Literary criticism, Poets
...loved and understood so well. Sextus Propertius may have been a colleague of...but although his Homage to Sextus Propertius sets the standard for Propertian...repair and repaint his mask. Propertius - Sextus was his praenomen or given...
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"Time to Translate Modernism into a Contemporary Idiom": Pedagogy, Poetics, and Bob Perelman's Pound
Journal article by Alan Golding; Shofar, Vol. 27, 2009
Subjects: Books, Conferences, Essays, Literary criticism, Modernism, Perelman, Bob, Poetry, Poets, Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
...poem, "Guide to Homage to Sextus Propertius."8 Perelmans Pound often...sectioned poem "Guide to Homage to Sextus Propertius." The title sets it up as...Pounds embrace, in "Homage to Sextus Propertius," of eroticized lyric pleasure...
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Saving Appearances: Another Ezra Pound Biography
Journal article by Leon Surette; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 55, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man and His Work, vol. 1: The Young Genius 1885-1920 (Biography)--Book reviews
...1919 poetry sequence Homage to Sextus Propertius, after two and a half pages...Sullivans 1964 study Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius. Sullivan does not ignore the...Sullivan, J. P. Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius: A Study in Creative Translation...
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The Thermo-mineral Complex at Baiae and de Balneis Puteolanis
Journal article by Fikret K. Yegul; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 78, 1996
Subjects: Archaeology, Architecture, Manuscripts, Middle Ages, Resorts & spas, Roman civilization
...second half of the 1st century B.C., Propertius reproached his vacationing lover, Cynthia...resort whose waters drift lovers apart"; Propertius, 1.11.30 (The Poems of Sextus Propertius, trans. J. P. McCulloch, Berkeley...
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Three Presences: Yeats, Eliot, Pound
Journal article by Denis Donoghue; The Hudson Review, Vol. 62, 2010
Subjects: Drama, Dramatists, Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965), Literary criticism, Poets, Pound, Ezra (1885-1972), Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
...or ever did possess;" Ezra when he re-creates Propertius or some Chinese poet escapes his skepticism. The...Merchants Wife: A Letter," a passage from "Homage to Sextus Propertius," and Canto XVTI. But he begged off saying anything...
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Sextus Propertius
Magazine article by Joseph Brodsky; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 17, Autumn 1993
Subjects: Love poetry--Evaluation, Poetry, Propertius, Sextus--Authorship
Sextus Propertius by Joseph Brodsky Very little is known about Sextus Propertius except that he was born circa 54...elegy will whet readers appetites for Sextus Propertius. His standing with the American...
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A Major Minor: Ezra Pound's Poetry
Magazine article by Donald Lyons; New Criterion, Vol. 17, June 1999
Subjects: American poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Pound, Ezra--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...key achievements in Cathay and Propertius, I suppose Id better explain...by four poems); Homage to Sextus Propertius in 1917, and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley...next large work, Homage to Sextus Propertius. Its twelve poems, stitched...
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The Snare of Rhetoric
Magazine article by Adam Kirsch; American Scholar, Vol. 72, Autumn 2003
Subjects: Poems and Translations (Book)
...end of the 1910s--the translator in "Homage to Sextus Propertius," and the poetic persona in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley...they show the nature of Pounds gifts very clearly. "Propertius" is an audaciously free translation of poems by the...
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The Voice Impersonator
Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 22, March 2004
...emerge from the sumps of fustian and rant. We can gauge how very far Pound had come by, say, 1919 when "Homage to Sextus Propertius" appeared. There is little in Pounds work before or after to equal that sequence: When, when, and whenever death...
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Reading in the Dark
Magazine article by Matthew Battles; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 32, Spring 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Library at Night (Book)--Book reviews
...with fascinating figures, telling anecdotes, and library lore. Michelangelo and Melvil Dewey Antonio Panizzi and Sextus Propertius, George Orwell and Caliph Omar I all make appearances. Manguel writes evocatively of libraries that sprang up at...
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newspaper articles on: Propertius Sextus  - 5 results

 
 
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Trembling without Fear (Parkinson's Disease)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, April 24, 2005
...when your strong words shall have fallen into a sob, and a trembling horror will begin from your sad tears." Propertius Sextus (c. 50-16 B.C. ), Roman elegist Oxford Classical Text, I.5. 1215 WHO was famous and had Parkinsons...
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Parkinson's Disease
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 27, 2005
...when your strong words shall have fallen into a sob, and a trembling horror will begin from your sad tears." Propertius Sextus (c. 50-16 B.C.), Roman elegist Oxford Classical Text, I.5. 12-15 QUICK! Who is famous and has Parkinsons...
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A Poet's Strange Case; the Great Talent, Moral Defects of Ezra Pound
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 21, 2003
Subjects: Pound, Ezra
...tone" of the original. One of Pounds more difficult and, with certain parts of "The Cantos" and the "Homage to Sextus Propertius," best poems is the 19-part "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley." Pound indicts modern Western culture for the madness...
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From Ancient Thebes to 8th Avenue
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, June 27, 1999
...distinguishable separate verdicts on sexual love that it is an affliction. (In similar spirit, Cyril Connolly quotes, from Sextus Propertius perhaps, that "a great love is a great doom.") Reducing that to the everyday, Mr. Mendelsohn appreciates the...
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When War Was A-Changing
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, May 21, 2000
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
...to willing imaginations. "A great love is a great doom," Cyril Connolly wrote half a century ago, thinking of Sextus Propertius and his Cynthia. Now the French novelist Patrick Rambaud, winner of the Prix Goncourt for his novel "The Battle...


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encyclopedia articles on: Propertius Sextus  - 2 results

 
 
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Propertius, Sextus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PROPERTIUS, SEXTUS sek st s propur sh s, c.50 b.c. c.16 b.c., Roman elegiac poet, b. Umbria. He was a member of the circle of Maecenas...
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Pound, Ezra Loomis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...release he returned to Italy, where he remained until his death at the age of 87. Pounds major works are Homage to Sextus Propertius (1918), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and the Cantos (1925 60), a brilliant, though sometimes obscure...


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