Doing Lucretius From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: October 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright University of Virginia Autumn 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Doing Lucretius, by Sidney Burris.

As the title of Sidney Burris's second volume of poems suggests, many of these poems arise from a sensibility that could be called classical in several senses. In the fourth section, for example, several poems focus directly on figures and situations from classical Greek poetry and mythology. Meanwhile, many poems, as well as epigraphs throughout the book, connect themselves to classic-in the sense of canonical-- figures of literature, painting, and religious history. In these poems Burris keeps fruitful company with Abelard, EI Greco, Richard Hooker, Henry ...

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