This book sets out to reveal the essential nature of Roman poetry and the ways in which individual, highly conscious of inheriting an identifiable tradition, managed to achieve an originality of their own. Williams focuses particularly on the Augustan poets, with all quotations given in Latin and English.
- ISBN10 0198143478
- ISBN13 9780198143475
- Publish Date December 1968
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 August 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 822
- Language English