Roman Poets in Modern Guise: The Reception of Roman Poetry Since World War I

by Theodore Ziolkowski

Analogies with Rome have been a powerful motif in American thought-and poetry-since the Founding Fathers. They resurged in the twentieth century, and especially after World War II, when the US saw its mission as analogous to that of Augustan Rome-a theme conspicuous in Robert Frost's poem for the Kennedy inauguration, which prophesied "The glory of a next Augustan age."
This theme showed up in the poetry of other countries too. The Roman mode...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140778
• ISBN13: 9781640140776
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"