PROPERTIUS,
Elegies. Book I. Edited by W.A. Camps.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1961. VII,101p. Bound wrps. Notae Arnottensis. A lot of pencil annotations from WGA. Scholarly letter from W.A. Camps to WGA loosely inserted.
Propertius, though his works are small in volume, is one of the foremost poets of the Augustan age, and his writing has a certain appeal to modern tastes (witness the admiration of Ezra Pound). Book I is especially suitable for the reader wanting a representative selection of Propertius' poetry. It stands on its own, having appeared in the first place as a separate collection; it reflects a distinct phase of the poet's activity (and of his emotional development); and it is the book which made his reputation. This edition is designed for the pocket of the university student, but it should find a wider audience among classicists of all ages. The introduction provides the necessary historical and critical background and relates Book I to the rest of the elegies; the notes are helpful and to the point; and the text has a reasonable minimum of apparatus. (Publisher's information).
'Within its limits, Camps's book should be extremely useful, and should succeed in introducing many new readers to a poet who has too long been concealed behind the depressing format of existing texts.' (GAVIN TOWNEND in The Classical Review (New Series), 1962, p.214). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.
€ 25.00
(Antiquarian)