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1. Sextus Propertius

Propertius

1. Roy K. Gibson

Excess and Restraint: Propertius, Horace and Ovid's 'Ars Amatoria' (BICS Supplement 89)

Arion (Mythology)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In Greek mythology, Arion or Areion is a divinely-bred, extremely swift immortal horse which, according to the Latin poet Sextus Propertius, was endowed with speech. Arion's siring by Poseidon in stallion form vary by author: according to the Pseudo-Apollodorus, the horse was foaled by Demeter while she was "in the likeness of a Fury"; Pausanias reported that, according to Antimachus, the horse was the foal of Gaia, the Earth, herself. In the Epic Cycle Arion was mounted most notably by Adrastus, king of Argos. The earliest literary mention of Arion is in Homer, Iliad, XXIII, 346. Statius also made mention of the horse in his first century Latin epic poem the Thebaid, VI, 301. On the subject of Arion, Homer said in the Iliad: "... there is no man that shall catch thee by a burst of speed, neither pass thee by, nay, not though in pursuit he were driving goodly Arion, the swift horse of Adrastus, that was of heavenly stock ...".

Confessional Poetry

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Confessional poetry emphasizes the intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life, such as in poems about mental illness, sexuality, and despondence. The confessionalist label was applied to a number of poets of the 1950s and 1960s. John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, and William De Witt Snodgrass have all been called 'Confessional Poets'. As fresh and different as the work of these poets appeared at the time, it is also true that several poets prominent in the canon of Western literature, perhaps most notably Sextus Propertius and Petrarch, could easily share the label of "confessional" with the confessional poets of the fifties and sixties. Confessional free verse poetry seemed to have become the dominant approach in late 20th-century American poetry.

Sextus Propertius

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet who was born around 50-45 BC in Assisium) and died shortly after 15 BC. Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of Elegies. He was friends with the poets Gallus and Virgil, and had with them as his patron Maecenas, and through Maecenas, the emperor Augustus. In the 20th century Ezra Pound's poem "Homage to Sextus Propertius" cast Propertius as something of a satirist and political dissident, and his translation/interpretation of the elegies presented them as ancient examples of Pound's own Imagist theory of art. The imagist interpretation, the poet's tendency to sustain an interior monologue, and the deeply personal nature of his poetry have made Propertius a favorite in the modern age. Two modern English translations of his work have appeared since 2000, and the playwright Tom Stoppard in his masterwork The Invention of Love suggests the poet was responsible for much of what the West regards today as "romantic love".

1. Gaius Valerius Catullus

Catullus Tibullus et Propertius