The elegies of Quintilius
By: Peter Russell.
Edition: Rev. and enl. ed.
Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry; U.S. Distributor, Dufour Editions
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; Chester Springs, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Verse satire, English.; Rome -- Poetry.
Description: "Peter Russell is at his lyrical and satirical best in the Elegies of his alter ego Quintilius, a disaffected and maverick late Latin poet whose scabrous observations on the last decadent days and collapse of the Roman Empire, seen from a provincial perspective, are sharply pertinent to our own age. This enlarged edition reissues with much uncollected material a famous modernist jeu d'esprit which gave Peter Russell his true Poetic voice - dyspeptic, witty, coruscating and chilled by sudden apprehensions of mortality."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Car la Muse m'a fait l'un des fils de la Grèce".
Free translation of 6 elegies of Quintilius.