"Great poet though he is, Propertius (born c. 50 B.C.) has been relatively little read. His chief subjects are love, death, and Roman life. This. . . edition offers and excellent, readable, poetic translation." --Key Reporter "Attractive in an up-to-date idiom and topicality . . . judiciously balanced by polished elegance of phrase which does ample justice to the more sonorous and urbane areas of the original . . . he almost always captures the sustains our interest. His diction is more forthright, spare, unaffected, and modern in tone than any previous full-scale translation." --Time Higher Education Supplement