search for books and compare prices
James Michie has written 8 work(s)
Search for other authors with the same name
displaying 1 to 8 |
at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Paperback:
9780375759024 | Modern Library, February 12, 2002, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Provides a translation of the odes of Horace who, along with his friend Virgil, was the most celebrated and influential poet in the reign of Emperor Augustus.
Hardcover:
9780674995550 | New edition (Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1993), cover price $26.00
9780674995567 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $26.00
Product Description: Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BCE), one of the finest lyrical poets of classical times, was also among the bawdiest. He was capable of producing poems of such forthright and ribald sensuality that until recently they were all too often relegated to collections of erotica to protect the innocent minds of impressionable students...read more
Hardcover:
9781853991295 | New edition (Bristol Classical Pr, June 1, 1991), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.
Product Description: Memorable, witty, bawdy, profound--the short poem observes no limits except those of length. They can range from subjects as diverse as a child's first words, a woman's feet, or human destiny. The verses within this collection vary greatly in theme, style, and tone, but in each case, brevity reveals the poets at their best, both as individual artists and as exemplars of their times...read more
Hardcover:
9780192141354 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 30, 1986, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Memorable, witty, bawdy, profound--the short poem observes no limits except those of length.
Paperback:
9780192804105 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 30, 2003, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Memorable, witty, bawdy, profound--the short poem observes no limits except those of length.
9780192820730 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1987), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Varying greatly in theme, style, and tone, these poems of fourteen lines or less include works by such masters as Jonson, Herrick, Blake, Dickinson, Yeats, Hardy, and Frost, as well as many lesser-known poets
Hardcover:
9780195204889 | Ill edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1985), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An eighteenth-century English minister offers a portrait of rural life and daily observations on his servants, parishoners, relatives, and activities.
Hardcover:
9780195028706 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 20, 1981, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Translated by E.
Hardcover:
9780812817867 | Stein & Day Pub, June 1, 1975, cover price $9.50
Product Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ODE XXXI. THE POET'S PRAYER. What asks the poet, who adores Apollo's virgin shrine, What asks he, as he freely pours The consecrating wine ? Not the rich grain, that waves along Sardinia's fertile land, Nor the unnumber'd herds, that throng Calabria's sultry strand; Not gold, nor ivory's snowy gleam, The spoil of far Cathay, Nor fields, which I/iris, quiet stream, Gnaws silently away...read more
Hardcover:
9780670520367 | Viking Pr, February 10, 1963, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.
displaying 1 to 8 |
at end