96 Ibid., p. 3. Sullivan provides a short survey of translations of Propertius beginning with John Nott in 1782 and culminating with more open-ended efforts by Yeats (responding to 2.2.5–10) and Robert Lowell, who composed a response to 4.7 (see pp. 173–183).
97 Arkins, ‘Pound’s Propertius’, p. 30.
98 Quoted in Sullivan, Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius, p. 4.
99 Quoted in ibid., p. 6.
100 Quoted in ibid., p. 9.
101 Ibid., p. 27.
102 Quoted in Thomas, Latin Masks, p. 49.
103 Thomas, Latin Masks, pp. 44–45. Notably, Pound pointed to the poem he called ‘Ride to Lanuvium’ (i.e. 4.8) as a clear example of Propertian humour; for more on Pound’s sense of this poem, see Sullivan, Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius, pp. 71–72.
104 Sullivan, Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius, p. 65.
105 Arkins, ‘Pound’s Propertius’, p. 33. As Arkin notes, Pound relied on a text from 1892 that is somewhat different from the text of Propertius today, making some of Pound’s attempts to follow full poems seem choppy (see p. 34). See also Sullivan, Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius, pp. 112–113.
106 Ezra Pound, ‘XI’, from the Homage to Sextus Propertius, repr. in Personae: The collected poems of Ezra Pound (New York, 1926), p. 226.
107 Sullivan, Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius, p. 28.
108 To this day, the best study on Ovid’s overall reception in the twentieth century is Theodore Ziolkowski, Ovid and the Moderns (Ithaca and London, 2005). See also Duncan F. Kennedy, ‘Recent receptions of Ovid’, in Hardie (ed.), Cambridge Companion, pp. 320–335.
109 Ziolkowski, Ovid and the Moderns, p. 104.
110 Jo-Marie Claassen, Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius (Madison, 1999), p. 1.
111 This phrase belongs to Hartmut Froesch and is cited at Ziolkowski, Ovid and the Moderns, p. 243.
112 Ibid., p. 105.
113 Lyne, ‘Love and exile’, p. 289.
114 Ziolkowski, Ovid and the Moderns, p. 113. Ziolkowski also offers a chronological survey of Ovidian revival in Romania; see pp. 112–121.
115 We are grateful to Carmen Fenechiu and Dana LaCourse Munteanu for allowing us to use their forthcoming essay ‘Reinventing Ovid’s exile: Ex Ponto … Romanian style’, which addresses in detail all the Romanian authors discussed on these pages.
116 This essay can be found in A. Codrescu, The Disappearance of the Outside: A Manifesto for Escape (Boston, 1990).
117 This phrase is taken from Richard Thomas, Vergil and the Augustan Reception (Cambridge, 2001), p. 222.
118 Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, 2001), p. xix.
119 For a detailed discussion of Pushkin’s and Mandelshtam’s reception of Ovid, see Zara M. Torlone, Russia and the Classics: Poetry’s Foreign Muse (London, 2009), pp. 36–54 and 132–152 respectively.
120 Iosif Brodskii [Joseph Brodsky], Sochineniia Iosifa Brodskogo [Works of Joseph Brodsky], 7 vols. (St Petersburg, 2001), ii. p. 100. Unless otherwise noted all translations from the Russian are Zara Torlone’s.
121 Ibid., p. 124.
122 Ibid., iii. p. 11.
Recommended Reading
General Studies
Ancona, Ronnie and Ellen Greene (eds), Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry (Baltimore, 2005)
Conte, Gian Biagio, Latin Literature: A History, tr. Joseph B. Solodow, rev. Don Fowler and Glen W. Most (Baltimore, 1994)
Day, Archibald, The Origins of Latin Love Elegy (repr., Oxford, 1972)
Greene, Ellen, The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry (Baltimore, 1998)
James, Sharon, Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy (Berkeley, 2003)
Kennedy, Duncan, The Arts of Love: Five Studies in the Discourse of Roman Love Elegy (Cambridge and New York, 1993)
Luck, Georg, The Latin Love Elegy (New York, 1959)
Lyne, R.O.A.M., The Latin Love Poets from Catullus to Horace (Oxford and New York, 1980)
Miller, Paul A., Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy and the Emergence of the Real (Princeton, 2004)
Ross, David O., Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus, Elegy, and Rome (Cambridge and New York, 1975)
Veyne, Paul, Roman Erotic Elegy: Love, Poetry, and the West, tr. D. Pellauer (Chicago, 1988)
Poetry in the Augustan Context
Barchiesi, Alessandro, The Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse (Berkeley, 1997)
Galinsky, Karl, Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction (Princeton, 1996)
Griffin, Jasper, Latin Poets and Roman Life (Chapel Hill, 1986)
Lowrie, Michèle, Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (Oxford and New York, 2009)
Powell, Anton (ed.), Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus (London, 1992)
White, Peter, Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome (Cambridge, 1993)
Woodman, Tony J. and David West (eds), Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus (Cambridge and New York, 1984)
Catullus
Fitzgerald, William, Catullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position (Berkeley, 1995)
Havelock, Eric A., The Lyric Genius of Catullus (repr., New York, 1967)
Janan, Micaela, “When the Lamp Is Shattered”: Desire and Narrative in Catullus (Carbondale, 1994)
Quinn, Kenneth, Catullus: An Interpretation (London, 1972)
Skinner, Marilyn B., Catullus in Verona: A Reading of the Elegiac Libellus, Poems 65–116 (Columbus, 2003)
Wiseman, T.P., Catullus and His World: A Reappraisal (Cambridge and New York, 1985)
Wray, David, Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood (Cambridge and New York, 2001)
Tibullus
Cairns, Francis, Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome (Cambridge and New York, 1979)
Lee-Stecum, Parshia, Powerplay in Tibullus: Reading Elegies Book One (Cambridge and New York, 1998)
Propertius
Benediktson, D. Thomas, Propertius: Modernist Poet of Antiquity (Carbondale, 1989)
DeBrohun, Jeri Blair, Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy (Ann Arbor, 2003)
Hubbard, Margaret, Propertius (New York, 1975)
Janan, Micaela, The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV (Berkeley, 2001)
Johnson, Walter R., A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome: Readings in Propertius and His Genre (Columbus, 2009)
Keith, Alison, Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure (London, 2008)
Papanghelis, Theodore D., Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (Cambridge and New York, 1987)
Stahl, Hans-Peter, Propertius: “Love” and “War”: Individual and State under Augustus (Berkeley, 1985)
Sullivan, John P., Propertius: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge and New York, 1976)
Welch, Tara S., The Elegiac Cityscape: Propertius and the Meaning of Roman Monuments (Columbus, 2005)
Ovid
Boyd, Barbara Weiden, Ovid’s Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores (Ann Arbor, 1997)
Fulkerson, Laurel, The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides (Cambridge and New York, 2005)
Gibson, Roy, Steven Green and Alison Sharrock (eds), The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris (Oxford, 2006)
Holzberg, Niklas, Ovid: The Poet and His Work (Ithaca, 2002)
Jacobson, Howard, Ovid’s Heroides (Princeton, 1974)
Knox, Peter, A Companion to Ovid (Malden and Oxford, 2009)
Lindheim, Sara H., Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid’s Heroides (Madison, 2003)
Myerowitz, Molly, Ovid’s Games of Love (Detroit, 1985)
Rimell, Victoria, Ovid’s Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination (Cambridge and New York, 2006)
Spentzou, Efrossini, Readers and Writers in Ovid’s Heroides: Transgressions of Genre and Gender
(Oxford and New York, 2003)
Thibault, John C., The Mystery of Ovid’s Exile (Berkeley, 1964)
Verducci, Florence, Ovid’s Toyshop of the Heart: Epistulae Heroidum (Princeton, 1985)
Ziolkowski, Theodore, Ovid and the Moderns (Ithaca, 2005)
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