Roman Verse Satires : Spleen and Ideal

The Romans invented 'satire' as a separate genre and used it both for personal invective and as a literary and philosophical mode of expression. In the hands of their greatest writers mockery and critique of society becomes an artform which later ages have imitated but not equalled.

• | Author: John Godwin
• | Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 02, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1802074694
• | ISBN-13: 9781802074697