De Rerum Natura, The Nature of Things: A Poetic Translation by David R. Slavitt, Lucretius

De Rerum Natura, The Nature of Things: A Poetic Translation

David R. Slavitt, Lucretius

320 pages first pub -55 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy poetry adventurous reflective slow-paced
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This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. De Rerum Natura is Lucretius's majestic elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology in an epic that unfo...

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