The Poems [Hardcover]

Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry and is analyzed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods, from ecstasy to suicidal despair.

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Guy Lee is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He is the translator ofThe Poems of Catullusin World's Classics. R. O. A. M. Lyne is a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author ofFurther Voices in Virgil's Aeneid(Clarendon Press).