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Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, "I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work." The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets' finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.
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Darrell Oliver
reviewed Poets in a Landscape on April 15, 2017
Poets in a Landscape
Just about a lifetime ago I was sitting in a plaza in Rome just across from the Pantheon. I was reading Gunter Grass and the sky was perfect. My luggage made it almost two days after my arrival. I was content. A large bald man with a fain aura of menace sat on the marble steps next to me. He made a comment in a brogue-ish way that it was a lovely day. I concurred with a bit of flourish, saying something ridiculous like its beauty was timeless. I don't think he offered his name but said he was from Ireland. I find it easier to tell people I am from Louisville, Kentucky. Ah, the Kentucky Derby. He pulled out a fifth of vodka. It was 10 a.m. Such lovely horses --he then took a lengthy swallow, though not as long as those last three words he shared with me, they contained centuries of verse.
This is a beautiful book, containing biographical sketches of the greatest pagan poets of Rome. The title indicates the prominence of landscape to this analysis and that is a triumph as well. The ancient soil appears to vibrate, to offer a human humility to the verse which has survived and the trappings of a physical Rome which haven't.
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