{"product_id":"poets-in-a-landscape-isbn-9781590173381","title":"Poets in a Landscape","description":"Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer.\u003ci\u003e Poets in a Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.\u003cp\u003e\"The first celebrity Classicist, a truly extraordinary teacher and scholar.\" —Robert J. Ball, \u003ci\u003eAntigone Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A guidebook to present-day Italian scenes and an introduction to seven of the great  Latin poets, whom we meet on their own grounds…the places and people we meet on this  very special trip make this extremely attractive for all who love the beauties of  nature and at the same time like to remind themselves of the great works of men and  the glories of past civilizations.” –Paul Jordan Smith, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A walk  back in time to a Roman Italy of 2,000 and the lives of seven Latin poets.” –Jacob  Deschin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“...this book has established itself as a minor classic,  or quite simply as a classic…The writing is sensitive and notably intelligent, backed  up by Highet’s competent verse renderings from the Latin, and to cap it all he gives  a pen-picture of Rome itself at its imperial apex. Here is scholarship in the old  sense, humane, unpedantic, open-minded and totally free of academic jargon.” –Brian  Fallon, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA “delightful, infectious book…Highet writes racily about  the Latin poets he admires, putting each in situ with the airy dash now frowned upon  in today’s dourer academy. He knows much. And enthuses even more. This is a labor  of love that is never labored. Highet’s attention to prosodic details gets us within  earshot of his authors.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Herald\u003c\/i\u003e (Glasgow)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Highet has written what is surely  one of the most unusual travel books ever published. It is in one sense an account  of a journey to Italy, complete with pictures taken by the author’s ‘faithful Rolleiflex.’  In another sense it is the journal of a trip into the Italy of the past…translated  by the author with loving care and capturing as faithfully as possible the meter  and structure of the oritinal work.” –Robert Kirsch, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This attractive  and pleasantly educational work...includes some lucid and enlightening critical interpretation…In  tracing the birthplaces and homes of his seven poets Mr. Highet has written sketches  of many places in Italy outside the orbit of most tourists…\u003ci\u003ePoets in a Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e is  a strikingly handsome example of bookmaking.” –Orville Prescott, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With great love and scholarship…he brings his poets and their troubles fully alive.”  –Stevie Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Highet is that rarest of finds, the scholarly \u003ci\u003ehomme complet,\u003c\/i\u003e full-blodded,  cultured, completely human in his learning.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Unlike many scholars he succeeds in getting into the skin of his poets, finding  the man in the style…there he can detect a writer’s true self.” –Cyril Connolly\u003c\/p\u003eGilbert Highet (1906–1978) was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to a middle-class family. He showed an early facility with Latin and Greek, reading Homer, Virgil, and Aeschylus for pleasure by the time he was sixteen. He attended Glasgow University, and later Oxford’s Balliol College, sweeping up most of the available prizes and scholarships along the way. In 1937 Highet joined the faculty of Columbia University, becoming a full professor at thirty-one. He taught at Columbia until 1972 (with the exception of a period during WWII, when he was stationed as an officer in Washington, D.C. and later assisted in the return of looted goods in Europe), becoming a legend for his animated and inspiring lectures. A very public intellectual, Highet served on the boards of \u003ci\u003eHorizon\u003c\/i\u003e magazine (1958–77) and the Book-of-the-Month Club (1954–78), was chief literary critic for \u003ci\u003eHarper\u003c\/i\u003e’s (1952–54), and hosted a cultural affairs radio program, People, Places, and Books (1952–59), that was broadcast on more than three hundred stations in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Highet wrote, translated, or edited some twenty books, of which \u003ci\u003eThe Classical Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e (1949) and \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Teaching\u003c\/i\u003e (1950) remain the best known. He was married to Helen MacInnes, a successful writer of espionage novels, from 1932 until his death from cancer in 1978. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael C.J. Putnam is MacMillan professor emeritus of classics and comparative literature, Brown University. Among his recent books are \u003ci\u003ePoetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJacopo Sannazaro: The Latin Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. In May 2009 he was awarded the Centennial Medal by the American Academy in Rome. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305148207333,"sku":"NP9781590173381","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590173381.jpg?v=1767734919","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/poets-in-a-landscape-isbn-9781590173381","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}