In the Teeth of the Gale
A.D. Nuttall, 16 November 1995
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
edited by Adrian Poole and Jeremy Maule.
Oxford, 606 pp., £19.99, October 1995,0 19 214209 7 Show More
edited by Adrian Poole and Jeremy Maule.
Oxford, 606 pp., £19.99, October 1995,
“... needs ‘liberum’ to rhyme with ‘rhythm’ at the end of the next line). Adrian Poole and Jeremy Maule allow themselves a similar donnish sharp intake of breath, in their Introduction, at the notorious howlers of Ezra Pound. The compilers of the Oxford Book have made an admirable collection for our time. Presumably, with the decay of classical ... ”