This author once claimed to be the "Roman Callimachus", supporting his claim with a series of poems written in the baroque Alexandrian manner found in "Book IV" of his works. In "Book II" he contemplated writing an epic poem to address concerns that he could write of nothing but love, concerns which stemmed from his first collection of works, the "Monobiblos", which contain many of the poems addressed to his mistress, Cynthia. FTP, who was this greatest elegiac poet of ancient Rome, best-known t
This author once claimed to be the "Roman Callimachus", supporting his claim with a series of poems written in the baroque Alexandrian manner found in "Book IV" of his works. In "Book II" he contemplated writing an epic poem to address concerns that he could write of nothing but love, concerns which stemmed from his first collection of works, the "Monobiblos", which contain many of the poems addressed to his mistress, Cynthia. FTP, who was this greatest elegiac poet of ancient Rome, best-known today for a poem in "homage" to him by Ezra Pound?
This author once claimed to be the "Roman Callimachus", supporting his claim with a series of poems written in the baroque Alexandrian manner found in "Book IV" of his works.
Sextus Propertius