Among the small but remarkable company of Roman elegiac poets of the first century B.C.--including Catullus, Gallus, Propertius, and Ovid--Albius Tibullus is often underestimated. He is treated as the least distinctive personality, writing the least...
Albius Tibullus (ca. 54-19 BC) was a Latin poet and writer of elegies. Little is known about his life. His first and second books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to Tibullus are of questionable origins. There are only a few references...
How to be Tibullus. (Elegiae 1.1). Albius Tibullus Pile your money high in yellow bullion if you want to, if tilled wide acres make you rich enough to and you don't mind work that doesn't stop, and sleep that starts and runs when army...
Louise Labe (ca. 1520 to 1566) published her works in Lyon in 1555, only a few years after the appearance of Du Bellay's La Deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse (1549), in which the author strongly urges poets to imitate classical models in...
In the following excerpt, Sellar provides an overview of Tibullus, dismisses questions about his identity, discusses his love affairs, and compares and contrasts his contributions to the elegy with those of Horace and other poets.
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