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Title: The Oxford Book of Latin Verse
From the earliest fragments to the end of the Vth Century A. D.

Author: Various

Editor: Heathcote William Garrod

Release Date: January 6, 2012 [EBook #38503]

Language: English

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The Oxford Book Of Latin Verse


From the earliest fragments to the end of the Vth Century A. D.

Chosen by

H. W. Garrod

Fellow of Merton College.

Oxford

At the Clarendon Press

FIRST PUBLISHED 1912

REPRINTED 1921, 1926, 1934, 1940 1943, 1947, 1952, 1964, 1968

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN




PREFACE


The plan of this book excludes epic and the drama, and in general so
much of Roman poetry as could be included only by a licence of excerpt
mostly dangerous and in poetry of any architectonic pretensions
intolerable. If any one remarks as inconsistent with this plan the
inclusion of the more considerable fragments of Ennius and the early
tragedians, I will only say that I have not thought it worth while to be
wiser here than Time and Fate, which have of their own act given us
these poets in lamentable excerpt. A more real inconsistency may be
found in my treatment of the didactic poets. It seemed a pity that
Didactic Poetry--in some ways the most characteristic product of the
Roman genius--should, in such a Collection as this, be wholly
unrepresented.