Introduction
Guide to the Pronunciation of Latin
Prelude: To the Reader
1: Love, and a Genre
2: Hate, Mockery, and the Physical World
3: Horace: The Sensation of Mediocrity
4: Vergil: The Unclassical Classic
5: Lucan and Seneca: Poets of Apocalypse
6: Science Fiction: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Ovid's
Metamorphoses
Epilogue
Guide to Further Reading
Glossary
William Fitzgerald is Professor of Latin at King's College, London.
It deserves strong support from all classicists, who should consult
it themselves (for personal stimulation and as a way of enlivening
their lectures) and recommend it warmly to others who will benefit
from it. This book will do much for the popularity of the Latin
languagge and Roman verse and will do much to help them survive and
stay healthy.
*Paul Murgatroyd, Latomus*
In this book William Fitzgerald acts as an expert guide through a
carefully arranged selection of examples. ... the spirit of
rediscovery which Fitzgerald invokes in his introduction will
enchant the previously initiated.
*Astrid Voigt, Museum Helveticum*
William Fitzgerald is a distinguished professor of Latin. He writes
with charm and lucidity [...] This books helps remind one of how
poetry can be incredibly rich without being incomprehensible.
*Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph*
mercurial and bold. Fitzgerald animates the dead language, covering
acres but often highlighting details, such as the expressive power
of word order, or English derivations ... This attempt to return to
Latin without being elitist and stuffy highlights a fault line in
our discipline. The glass ceiling is still there; this book helps
to demonstrate how we might smash it and why we should.
*Roger Rees, Times Higher Education*
William Fitzgerald's book on Latin poetry for those who "can't read
Latin yet" takes us right to the heart of Latin literature [...]
Fitzgerald's book makes demands, but the dividends are immense.
*The Scotsman, Michael Kerrigan*
The book can be warmly recommended to all curious about Roman
poetry, even to those who have no intention of learning (or
remembering) Latin any time soon.
*Roy Gibson, Times Literary Supplemen*
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