Author: Martial
Publisher: 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
Martial in English
Author: Martial
Publisher: 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
Publisher: 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.
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 Brown
Publisher:
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.
Publisher:
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: Martial
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Selected Epigrams of Martial
Author: Martial
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Martial and the Moderns. (A translation into English prose of select epigrams of Martial, arranged under heads, with examples of the modern uses to which they have been applied.) By A. Amos
Author: Martial
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Falk's Dictionary of Chinese Martial Arts, Deluxe Soft Cover
Author: Andrea Falk
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987902857
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A more than complete dictionary of Chinese martial arts, from Chinese to English. Years and years in the making, this dictionary has more than all the techniques you need. It contains all the words beyond the basics of the language, to enable you to read martial arts books, whether practical, theoretical, historical, or whatever.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987902857
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A more than complete dictionary of Chinese martial arts, from Chinese to English. Years and years in the making, this dictionary has more than all the techniques you need. It contains all the words beyond the basics of the language, to enable you to read martial arts books, whether practical, theoretical, historical, or whatever.
Martial's Epigrams
Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Martial, Book IV
Author: Rosario Moreno Soldevila
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047409892
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the fourth book of Martial's epigrams. The introduction discusses its date of publication, major themes (Domitian, literature, death), the arrangement and form of the epigrams, and some issues concerning the transmission of the text. Of special note is the author’s study of the structure of the book. The commentary, preceded by the Latin critical text and an English translation, aims to provide readers with as much pertinent information as possible to enable them to fully comprehend the epigrams. Attention is paid to style and literary tradition, as well as to realia. Both each individual epigram and the book as a whole are studied as finely accomplished works of art.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047409892
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the fourth book of Martial's epigrams. The introduction discusses its date of publication, major themes (Domitian, literature, death), the arrangement and form of the epigrams, and some issues concerning the transmission of the text. Of special note is the author’s study of the structure of the book. The commentary, preceded by the Latin critical text and an English translation, aims to provide readers with as much pertinent information as possible to enable them to fully comprehend the epigrams. Attention is paid to style and literary tradition, as well as to realia. Both each individual epigram and the book as a whole are studied as finely accomplished works of art.
M. Valerii Martialis Spectacvlorvm
Author: Martial
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198144814
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : la
Pages : 411
Book Description
An edition of a collection of Latin epigrams by the poet Martial to celebrate games held in the Colosseum. An introduction sets the epigrams in their literary and social context. Each epigram is followed by an English translation and a detailed commentary discussing matters of linguistic, literary, and historical interest.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198144814
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : la
Pages : 411
Book Description
An edition of a collection of Latin epigrams by the poet Martial to celebrate games held in the Colosseum. An introduction sets the epigrams in their literary and social context. Each epigram is followed by an English translation and a detailed commentary discussing matters of linguistic, literary, and historical interest.