Homage to Sextus Propertius (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ezra Pound
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Mythology or myths
The Poem
Homage to Sextus Propertius is essentially Ezra Pound’s translation of books 2 and 3 of the Elegies by the Roman poet Sextus Propertius, who lived during the latter part of the first century c.e. Calling this poem a “translation,” however, is misleading. Although many of Pound’s lines are accurate translations of the Latin verses, other stretches of the English-language poem depart widely in sense from the Latin original. Nevertheless, the subject matter of Homage to Sextus Propertius is that of the original books of the elegies, though the...
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