"Selections From The Roman Elegiac Poets", with Introduction and Notes by Jesse Benedict Carter (Assistant Professor of Latin in Princeton University). Gildersleeve-Lodge Latin Series, published by D.C. Heath & CO, Boston, 1900.

Hard boards, original cloth [some wear, surface damages: see photos]; 5.1/4" x 7.1/2"; antique bookstore stamp inside front cover, xlvii + 283 pages including Index of Proper Names and General Index, some soiling, good/ very good condition.

The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman poets, particularly Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, adopted the same form in Latin many years later.

"In the Introduction... I have tried to sketch the history of the Roman elegy both before and after the classical period, and to show the inter-relationship of the elegists of the Augustan age with one another and with the other poets of the time, and their participation in the social reforms of Augustus..."[excerpt from the Preface]

Jesse Benedict Carter (1872-1917) was a prominent American classicist of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He was Professor of Latin at Princeton from 1902. In 1904 Carter moved to Rome to join the faculty of the American School of Classical Studies, becoming director in 1907. When the American School of Classical Studies merged with the American Academy in Rome in 1911, Carter continued on as a faculty member and became the AAR director in 1912, following the death of Francis Davis Millet aboard the Titanic.

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