Articles related to "Propertius"

Brief biography of Roman Poet Sextus Propertius, best known for elegies of passionate love. His name is mentioned alongside Horace and Ovid.

Roman love elegy relied on stock characters to invent whole worlds in few words. Much elegiac humour came from the twists that poet's spun on these familiar characters.

By turns anguished and satirical, the love elegists rejected poetic tradition and drew on their lives, their loves and their literary ambitions to write elegiac couplets.

Brief biography of poet Ezra Pound, a major influence in 20th century's Modernism movements, imagism and vorticism. Best known for 'The Cantos.'

Brief summary of the life and poetry of Latin poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a great admirer of Sappho, and famous for his love poems.

Brief biography of ancient Roman poet Horace, famous for his finest lyrical poems in Latin, and best known for Odes.

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