Writing Epigrams: The Art of Composition in Catullus, Callimachus and Martial

by Gordon L. Fain

Every poet is deeply influenced by the verse of other poets. This influence is particularly apparent in the way poets compose their poems, which all poets learn by carefully reading the poetry of their predecessors. Though the style that poets eventually adopt may be unique and formed by their own particular genius, certain features of their poems will nevertheless reveal, at least in part, those earlier poets who have been most important to the formation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2870312539
• ISBN13: 9782870312537
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 238 Pages