Five Men and Pompey; a Series of Dramatic Portraits
Five Men and Pompey; a Series of Dramatic Portraits - the debut book of poems by the American poet Stephen Vincent Benéta, more widely known as the author of the epic poem John Brown's Body, published in 1915. Zbiorek is a series of dramatic monologues in the style of Robert Browning. When the volume was published in 1898, the author was only 17 years old. Tomik is divided into parts of The Last Banquet, Lucullus Dines, The Forlorn Campaign, Ad Atticum, De Bello Civile and After Pharsalia. Twelve years! Twelve years of striving! and at last My power is — secure? Still Pompey lives And has an army and Metellus strives To wipe out his defeats. The net is cast: Cast, and draws ever tighter: and my men Grumble and mutter, near to mutiny. Perpenna stirs up treason: like a fen Of black and quaking marshes, my own camp Boils up all foulness, gapes to swallow me. (The Last Banquet) Bibliography
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