"Down in a deep dark dell sat an old cow munching a beanstalk./ Out of her mouth came forth yesterday's dinner and tea." A perfect elegiac couplet - metrically speaking, anyhow. That was the metre in ...

Perhaps more immediate than Ezra Pound's ""Homage..."" are The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius himself, in Latin and translated by veteran poet and translator Vincent Katz (Understanding Objects ...

Horatio Caesar Roger Vella: Properzju Eleġiji. Assisi, 2012. 107 pp. The name Horatio Caesar Roger Vella does not need any introduction, and it is certainly familiar with the reading public of the ...

Not much is known about Propertius beyond what he says or implies about himself in the four books of elegies he wrote between roughly 30 BC (when he was probably in his mid to late twenties) and about ...

"Down in a deep dark dell sat an old cow munching a beanstalk./ Out of her mouth came forth yesterday's dinner and tea." A perfect elegiac couplet - metrically speaking, anyhow. That was the metre in ...