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Recent decades have seen a flourishing of interest in Hellenistic epigram (short poems usually in elegiac couplets), an interest fostered in part by the appearance of several ground-breaking new studies…
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Kanellou
Despite its small size, epigram attracted some of the best poetic talents of antiquity, exerting a strong influence on Latin literature and continuing to inspire poetic creativity until our days.
Kalisha D Lemmitt-Cherry, Peter Cherry
The Epigram's Romance
What if you were next to an Epigram having an emotional spat with a muse.
What would you do?
Immerse yourself in literature with refreshing narratives that…
Ian Frederick Moulton
Clever Little Books explores the role of Latin commentaries on the Roman poet Martial as a medium for the transmission of sexual knowledge among a male elite in early modern…
Said Al Azri
Dive into the third installment of the "Riddle Me This: A Professional Exploration in Poetry" series with "The Educator's Epigrams: Learning Lore in Verse for the Enlightened Mind." This captivating…
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James Edwin Thorold Rogers
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Atticus
The stunning new collection of poetry from Atticus, the no.1 Instagram poet
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Epigrams
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Select Epigrams
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
Peter J. Miller
The first large-scale comparative study of epinikian song and epigram in English. Integrates these genres into the context of ancient Greek athletics, particularly the rituals associated with victory and competition…
Martial
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Epigrammata is a collection of witty and often ribald epigrams by the Roman poet Martial. Written in the first century CE, the poems provide a fascinating glimpse into the social…
Ben Jonson
Epigrams (published in the 1616 folio) is an entry in a genre that was popular among late-Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences, although Jonson was perhaps the only poet of his time…
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Anonymous
This classic collection of epigrams by Roman poet Martial has been a favorite of readers for centuries. Filled with wit, humor, and incisive observations on human nature, these poems are…
Heathcote Garrod
Title: Epigrams.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries holding over 150 million…
James Mitchie,Martial
Martial was born in Bibilis, Spain, probably around 38-41 AD. His poems are definitely modelled off of Catullus’ epigrams and elegiac verses, although they are different in meaning and theme…
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Oscar Wilde
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Niall Livingstone (University of Birmingham),Gideon Nisbet (University of Birmingham)
This book provides an introduction as to what epigram means and why it matters. Subjects covered include the roots in inscriptions on stone, the continuation of Greek epigram under the…
Bill F Ndi
Bill F. Ndi, poet, playwright, storyteller, literary critic, translator, historian of ideas and mentalities and academic is household name in Anglophone Cameroonian poetry. He has held teaching positions in several…
In his epigrams, Martial (c. 40-c. 103 CE) is a keen, sharp-tongued observer of Roman scenes and events, including the new Colosseum, country life, a debauchee’s banquet, and the eruption…
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Fables and Epigrams: With Essays on Fable and Epigram is a book written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and published in 1825. The book is a collection of fables and epigrams…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
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Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Frederick William Morton
This entertaining collection of epigrams features witty, wise, and satirical quips from literature's female voices. It is a delightful read that will make readers laugh, think, and appreciate the power…
John Heywood, Thomas Watson
In this classic collection, John Heywood and Thomas Watson bring together a wealth of witty and insightful proverbs and epigrams. Ranging from the humorous to the philosophical, these succinct yet…
Richard Dutton’s introduction illuminates the structure and context of Jonson’s Epigrams and The Forest . Dutton shows them to be carefully structured poem sequences that display Jonson’s command of poetic…
The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and…
John H. Tilden,John H. Tilden
These are a collection of many philosophical writings of the famed naturopath, Tilden. Example: No truth is our truth until it becomes a part of us by being woven into…
Francis Thynne
The volume contains the wife-worried Thynne’s opinions on wives-who’re always necessary evils, the best is bad; who’re good when they die of old age, better when they die after some…
Book XIV of Martial’s epigrams, the Apophoreta , comprising of poetic couplets, is a source of information about one of the principal Roman festivals and about many everyday objects of…
Decimus Magnus Ausonius of Bordeaux was one of the most significant literary and political figures of the fourth century AD. This edition of his short poems gives a line-by-line commentary…
Dr John H Tilden
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
Lind Ruby
Edmund Fuller
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Robert Littell
The legendary spy-novelist presents a luminous historical novel, chronicling a famous Russian poet’s defiance of Stalin’s regime, his subsequent exile and mysterious death.
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