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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; Bound in red cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. French text. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Edge sunned. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. 662 p., frontispiece, 25 cm. "Ancient poetry is not readily descriptive, and yet there are famous ones, like Achilles' shield. These are then "pauses" in the speech, always linked, among the ancients, to inspired meditation. These are moments when the author justifies his own poetic practices, when he dialogues with the reader. Ms. Galand, thanks to an exceptional mastery of ancient, medieval and Renaissance culture, follows the development of poetic descriptions among the poets who were heirs to Alexandrianism: Ovid, Stace, Ausone, Alain de Lille and Politien. A poetic tradition is thus revealed to us as closely as possible to the texts."
