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- Title
Robert Lowell’s Propertius.
- Authors
Talbot, John
- Abstract
Critics have ignored the strong Propertian presence in Robert Lowell's poems. The case is here made for Propertius as one of Lowell's main influences. Evidence adduced from Lowell's letters reveals his personal identification with Propertius, an attitude evident in the interpolations of his translation of elegy 4.7. Poems ostensibly based on Virgil, Catullus, and Ovid are shown to have a strong Propertian inflection. And perplexities of Propertius' style are linked to Lowell's.
- Subjects
PROPERTIUS, Sextus, ca. 50 B.C.-15 B.C.; LOWELL, Robert, 1917-1977; INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.); POETS; LITERATURE translations; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 1/2, p130
- ISSN
1073-0508
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1007/s12138-008-0008-z