Collected Papers on Latin Poetry

This volume comprises most of the articles on Latin poetry by the late R. O. A. M. Lyne. Written over more than three decades, they cover the same connected territory - largely Vergil, Horace, and elegy - and together constitute a significant and coherent body of work. Lyne's consistent approach of close reading (one of the traits which made him such an outstanding tutor) means that the articles form a unified whole, while his compelling style as an engaged literary analyst ensures that these are by no means dry or forbidding pieces. This is writing from a world-class Latinist which displays both his diverse interests as a scholar and his consistent concern with Augustan texts, their language and literary texture. It includes some famous and well-known articles and one previously unpublished piece.

R. O. A. M. Lyne was Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Balliol College, Oxford and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature in the University of Oxford.