These are considerable, for he is a gifted poet. His versions possess a rapidity and piquancy unusual in translations. Some of his turns of phrase are quite arresting. In short, his translations are also poems in their own right.

" Slavitt's continually startling Propertius in Love brings to mind Pasternak's line that "the root of beauty is audacity.

"--Michael C. J. Putnam, Brown University "This work is a consummate labor of love, which has managed to translate the ageless sophistication of the Roman poet Propertius (50 to 16 BC) into the distracted dissonance of our own perilous ...

In this eloquent and consistently faithful translation, W. G. Shepherd does full justice to the work of this remarkable Latin poet.

The Poetry Book Society Autumn 2018 Recommended Translation.