caa a22 4500 388041617 CHVBK 20180307125023.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199811 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/300804 doi S0075435800044105 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/300804 Comber Michael St John's College, Oxford A Book Made New: Reading Propertius Reading Pound. A Study in Reception [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Comber] In situations in which understanding is disrupted or made difficult, the conditions of all understanding emerge with the greatest clarity. Thus the linguistic process by means of which a conversation in two languages is made possible through translation is especially informative. (Gadamer) This article was prompted by a reading of Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius, and, in particular, by a basic question: why might the argumentative, edgy poet Pound have been drawn to Propertius? What might he have seen in him? Some of the attraction, no doubt, lay in Propertius' slightly marginal status as a Classical author, part of the main tradition but on the edge. But it does not seem to have been the romantically agonized version of Propertius that Pound saw. Nor the merely clever, witty, light and playful Propertius - though he saw more of the second figure than the first. Copyright ©Michael Comber 1998. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies Journal of Roman Studies Cambridge University Press 88(1998-11), 37-55 0075-4358 88<37 1998 88 JRS https://doi.org/10.2307/300804 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/300804 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Comber Michael St John's College, Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Roman Studies Cambridge University Press 88(1998-11), 37-55 0075-4358 88<37 1998 88 JRS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge