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Juvenal: Satires Book I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
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This volume presents a new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal. In the Introduction Braund situates Juvenal within the genre of satire and demonstrates his originality in creating an angry character who declaims in the "grand style." The Commentary illuminates the content and style of Satires 1-5. The essays on each of the poems together with the overview of Book I in the Introduction present the first integrated reading of these Satires as an organic structure.

Sixteen Satires, 3rd Edition (Penguin Classics)

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A great translation of a great work
Cynical, pessimistic, ugly, haunting, bawdy, and oh so true

Sixteen Satires, 3rd Edition (Penguin Classics)
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A great translation of a great work.......2001-11-19

Juvenal, is by far one of the greatest writers of the Roman era. His biting style and keen insight is a pleasure to read, and has not lost its appeal after the long years since it was written. Many of the subjects that Juvenal lashes at with his sharp wit are still apply today (government corruption and decadence among others).
However, Juvenal clearly wrote his satires for the era of the roman empire, not the 21st century, and his refferences often fly over the reader's head. The translator has done a fabulous job in explaining these details in the copious notes at the back of the book. It is highly suggested that one reads sections of the notes before reading those sections in the satires to gain the greatest understanding.

Cynical, pessimistic, ugly, haunting, bawdy, and oh so true.......1999-07-11

Juvenal was a misanthrope who looked around at the people he saw in ancient Rome and decided that most people were dishonest, corrupt, obsessed with sex, stupid, cheaters, etc. It's an ugly picture but hard to argue with as people are pretty much the same now. There are some masterly depictions here and some very good common sense, too. Not a pick me up. More like a "pull you down". Still worth reading to confirm your worst suspicions and also as an antidote to much positive thinking nonsense.

Dawn of the Senses: Selected Poems of Alberto Blanco (Pocket Poets Series)

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Reflections, a thread, spanish and english

Dawn of the Senses: Selected Poems of Alberto Blanco (Pocket Poets Series)
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An impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers.

Born in Mexico City in 1951, Alberto Blanco is a dynamic and influential voice in the new poetry of Mexico. A musician, artist, essayist, translator, and storyteller, his poetry explores the connections on frontiers between verbal, visual, and aural experience. He is both an innovator and a classicist, a materialist and a mystic, a visionary and a chronicler of everyday life.

Here his poems converse with their English translations, to create "a singular book . . . not simply a bilingual edition, but one unified voice, a poetry that speaks of a world far beyond languages and borders." (from the introduction by Jose Emilio Pacheco).

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Reflections, a thread, spanish and english.......2001-12-29

ok...if you are a T.S. Eliot fan or Naruda or Paz, then you will find Dawn of the Senses to be an interested reverberation from the latin world.

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This new translation reproduces the original style and metrical effect of Juvenal's hexameters, while the Introduction and Notes provide literary and historical background to the sixteen satires.

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A gentleman's rant.......2007-05-12

These 16 essays aren't satires, in the modern sense of comedic exaggerations. Instead, they are serious commentary on some of the many failings of a time in social decline - topics that will often send a familiar chill through a modern reader.

Juvenal's complaints are numerous and well-founded: hypocrisy in general, physical and moral risks of urban living, marital infidelity, abuse of power by the military (were they the police?), abuse of trust by almost anyone, and more. Along with his generally gloomy outlook (e.g. 'The Futility of Aspirations') and incipient sense of persecution ('The Plight of Intellectuals'), one struck close to home for me.

'The Influence of Vicious Parents' repeats something both obvious and in desperate need of repetition. Children learn what they see, not what they're told, and the adult acts as the child learned to act. If only one quote from this book sticks with me, I hope it's this: "A child demands the utmost respect, so think twice if you have someting nasty in mind."

Although generally readable, it doesn't flow as easily as other translations I've seen. Profuse endnotes (about 40% of the book's total mass) address many issues of culture, cross-reference, and linguistic interest. I'm a general-interest reader with a deepset habit of reading footnotes, and often found the commentary more pedantic than enlightening. Specialists and scholars may appreciate the detail; I just found it distracting.

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Excellent Translation.......2006-03-02

Rudd's translation is a pleasure to read. He manages to stick closely to the Latin of Juvenal while also conveying the liveliness and humor of the Satires. I would recommend it not only for a student who is struggling through the Latin, but also the casual reader.

Juvenal's Satires.......2000-04-19

Juvenal is best understood when you liken his satire to drama. You're actually not supposed to identify with the speaker. The satirist's harsh indignance forces you to be skeptical in the way you read, and the way you look at the world. Rudd has produced a good translation, and his preference for generalizing over historical specifics is helpful for most readers, though slightly prohibitive for the student. Adequate notes and helpful introduction.

Since Amazon insists on posting my review of Rudd's translation to Braund's Cambridge text, I must admit that I have not used Braund's text. The series, though, is consistently good, and Braund is a natural choice to comment on the Satires. I am confident from reading her other scholarship on Juvenal that her commentary is educated, her viewpoint modern, and her commentary very helpful.

El Cazador De Tatuajes
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El Cazador De Tatuajes
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Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library)
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Nice Update

Servicable but in dire need of revision

Masterful

Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library)
Juvenal , Persius , and Susanna Morton Braund
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The bite and wit of two of antiquity's best satirists are captured here in a new Loeb Classical Library edition, a vivid and vigorous translation facing the Latin text.

Persius (34-62 C.E.) and Juvenal (writing maybe 60 years later) were heirs to the style of Latin verse satire developed by Lucilius and Horace, a tradition mined in Susanna Braund's introduction and notes. Her notes also give guidance to the literary and historical allusions that pepper Persius's and Juvenal's satirical poems--which were clearly aimed at a sophisticated urban audience. Both poets adopt the mask of an angry man, and sharp criticism of the society in which they live is combined with flashes of sardonic humor in their satires. Whether targeting common and uncommon vices, the foolishness of prayers, the abuse of power by emperors and the Roman elite, the folly and depravity of Roman wives, or decadence, materialism, and corruption, their tone is generally one of righteous indignation.

Juvenal and Persius are seminal as well as stellar figures in the history of satirical writing. Juvenal especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries.

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Nice Update.......2005-09-20

This is a new update to a LCL volume that was from 1913. It contains the text of Persius' (A.D. 34-62) and Juvenal's (circa A.D. 127) satires. The update is really well done. The introduction provides an excellent introduction to the genre and a background on the transmission of the text.

The translation is well done. It is a prose translation of the Latin poems. Generally the translation is accurate with "idiom-for-idiom" translation, using equivalent contemporary American expressions for ancient slang. The translation has extensive footnotes to explain historical, mythological, literary, and geographic references. This is very handy for a reader without a mastery of classical literature.

Servicable but in dire need of revision.......2000-07-17

This Loeb Classical Library edition of Juvenal and Persius was first published in 1918 and was last revised in 1940. The translations are servicable, but this particular volume badly needs the revision that other Loeb volumes have been receiving under the skilled hand of G.P. Goold, currently general editor of the series. The translations of the Juvenal satires in the current volume have been censored where Juvenal was evidently felt by the standards of 1918 to have been too indecent (cf. II.49-50 for an example; the Latin, however, is untouched). While one can understand the reticience of the editor given his era, this censorship should really be remedied in a future revision (as it has been in the Loeb "Catullus" edited by Goold). Until then Peter Green's fine translation for Penguin contains a complete rendering which will allow the reader to judge for himself or herself whether or not to be shocked by what Juvenal says.

Masterful.......1998-06-24

This translation of Juvenal is masterfully done, with both the original latin and English translation in a small and easy to carry book. Juvenal is to satire what Shakespeare was to the play.

Light from a Nearby Window: Contemporary Mexican Poetry

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A Clean, Well-lighted Window

Light from a Nearby Window: Contemporary Mexican Poetry

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Light from a Nearby Window introduces a new generation of poets who have become a driving force in Mexican literature today.

Until quite recently, contemporary Mexican poetry has been little-known and virtually unavailable to English-speaking readers. This bilingual anthology includes twenty-one poets-twelve men and nine women-all of who have received national and international recognition. In poems about sexuality and spirituality, politics and marginalization, history and tradition, urban and rural life, they write about the unique experience of being Mexican at the end of the millennium.

Juvenal Acosta was born in Mexico City in 1961. He studied economics in Mexico City, and philosophy in Michoacan, where he lived, miraculously, as a poet. He is the author of the award-winning Diciendo unas palabras negras and Paper of Live Flesh. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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A Clean, Well-lighted Window.......2002-05-08

This much needed anthology of contemporary Mexican poetry, published back in 1993, offers English language readers a glimpse of some significant and interesting poets from Mexico. Editor Juvenal Acosta selected twenty-one poets for inclusion in this bilingual edition. As is inevitably the case, some will lament absences (personally, I wish Blanca Luz Pulido had been included) and others will wonder at some of the inclusions, but that is the nature of these collections. Overall, Acosta presents a balanced overview of contemporary verse from Mexico, focusing on those poets who are now (2002), in many cases, in their peak years of creativity. As the editor points out in his brief introduction, "In 'Light from a Nearby Window' I have tried to bring together poets who are not only some of the best in Mexico, but are also among my literary heroes. Many of them have been my companions, through their poems, during my elf-imposed exile in the United States." Many of the poets included here have continued to have success in terms of recognition from publishers and award givers, so time seems to be lending weight to Acosta's judgement and taste. For example, the youngest poet in the anthology, María Baranda, had published only two collections at the time this book came out; since then she has published four additional works.
Among those included, I feel a special affinity for the work of Antonio Deltoro, Isabel Quiñonez, and Ricardo Castillo. The former two are introspective and disquieting. Deltoro's "La casa vendida" is a minor stroke of genius. Ricardo Castillo's voice stands out for its irreverence and humor. His "Oda a las ganas" ("Ode to the urge") is delightful, evocative enough to just make you want to put down your book and take a big leak.
A brief note on the translations, which were provided by a group of eleven translators, some of whom are noted poets in their own right. Most are excellent and some are inspired; a few, unfortunately, are simply incompetent.

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Needed for College class

Juvenal: The Satires
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Needed for College class.......2007-01-04

Somewhat hard to read, but a great look into Roman life.

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For the last ten years I have used this book with great success.Frankly I Still have not found another book on sale here in Argentina to substitute it. Lately it has not been on sale and unfortunately the issue of BOOK 1 in my possesion is wrongly bound. This means that Units 13, 14 and 15 are missing and instead three units of Book 2 are included. The book in my possesion has been published by Regents. I WISH YOU COULD HELP ME SOLVE THIS PROBLEM

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