The Elegies of Quintilius Stultus, Cittinus Aurealianus

by Peter Russell

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Peter Russell is at his lyrical and satirical best in the Elegies of his alter ego Quintilius, a disaffected and maverick late Latin poet whose scabrous observations on the last decadent days and collapse of the Roman Empire, seen from a provincial perspective, are sharply pertinent to our own age. This enlarged edition reissues with much uncollected material a famous modernist jeu d'esprit which gave Peter Russell his true poetic voice - dyspeptic, witty, coruscating and chilled by sudden apprehensions of mortality.
  • ISBN10 0856462772
  • ISBN13 9780856462771
  • Publish Date 21 November 1996 (first published 19 June 1975)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Imprint Anvil Press Poetry
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 112
  • Language English