LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Poetry | November 1, 2005| | Copyright

Dear Editor,

Garry Wills observes that the classics "are no longer vital to the culture" (modern secular culture), and he takes Sherod Santos's selection of Greek Lyric Poetry as a symptom of that decay ["Slop and Gossip," October 2005]. There is no question that we have lost the intimacy with the Greek and Latin poets that educated readers in the later Renaissance and the eighteenth century could assume. Wills, with his own superb classical training, usefully points out instances where Santos has needlessly decorated the Greek or failed to take account of some crucial assumption shaping the ...

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