The gnat and other minor poems of Virgil / translated by David R. Slavitt ; foreword by Gordon Williams.

These delightful poems--by turns whimsical, beautiful, and vulgar--seem to have primarily survived because they were attributed to Virgil. But in David R. Slavitt's imaginative and appealing translations, they stand firmly on their own merits. Slavitt brings to this little-known body of verse a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Slavitt, David R., 1935-
Other title:Appendix Vergiliana. English.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Latin
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Series:Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • The gnat
  • The barmaid
  • Curses
  • Lydia
  • Priapus poems
  • Pesto
  • The good man
  • Yes and no
  • Budding roses.