Tag: Clarence W. Mendell’s Latin Poetry

     The first page of David Markson’s copy of Latin Poetry: The New Poets & The Augustans by Clarence W. Mendell:

     On which Markson wrote as an inscription:
     “Markson
     NYC ‘81”

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     The above inscription is a fairly classic Markson inscription.

     Though he has a few ways of writing his name on the inside front cover or first page of his books, it most often appears like this.

     Mendell’s book, Latin Poetry: The New Poets & The Augustans, from which the above scan is taken, discusses such Latin poets as Lucretius, Catullus, Vergil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid.

     A fact you would know of these men if you have read Markson’s Vanishing Point:
     “Evidently not one of the major Latin poets in Rome was born in Rome itself.” (Pg. 89).