Background
His father was an Oxford don and his mother a teacher.
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Lusus
(This title is a volume of poems rooted in the traditions ...)
This title is a volume of poems rooted in the traditions of neo-Latin verse writing, with its erotic and rural themes. This book includes Monte Genaro Epigrams, composed in hendecasyllabic pentameters which explores a landscape in central Italy and finds in it metaphors for language and forms of civility.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1857543823/?tag=2022091-20
(Lusus) Author: Robert Wells published on (July, 1999)
(This title is a volume of poems rooted in the traditions ...)
This title is a volume of poems rooted in the traditions of neo-Latin verse writing, with its erotic and rural themes. This book includes Monte Genaro Epigrams, composed in hendecasyllabic pentameters which explores a landscape in central Italy and finds in it metaphors for language and forms of civility.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VYPCC4W/?tag=2022091-20
Collected Poems & Translations: Robert Wells
( Developing and expanding the explorations of previous w...)
Developing and expanding the explorations of previous works, this mature collection invokes shepherds and farm laborers, lakes and swimmers, and the changes of the seasons amid a play of light and shade, abandon and reserve. Suffused with the scents and colors of the Mediterranean landscape, these quietly thoughtful poems choose subtle over obvious effects yet convey an astounding force and beauty. Meditating upon erotic and rural themes, these poems reveal an affirmation of the unending power of language through short love lyrics, portrait poems, anecdotes, satirical epigrams, and beautifully crafted narratives of travel and memory.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847770118/?tag=2022091-20
Robert Wells
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He attended King"s College, Cambridge from 1965 to 1968, and worked as a woodsman on Exmoor in 1977, the year The Winter"s Task: Poems was published.
Career
From 1979 to 1982 he taught English in Italy, Iran, and Leicester. He has written freelance and translated Virgil and Theocritus. Michael Schmidt included some of his poems in two anthologies.
Carcanet published his poetry books,, and "The Day and other Poems" (2006), and his verse translations, Virgil"s Georgics (1982) and Theocritus" Idylls (1988).
His Collected Poems and Translations was published in 2009. Wells" poetry was inspired first by Virgil"s Georgics and then by his own experiences working as a woodsman.
In it, he explored man"s experience of "landscape, how it might be lived in and worked in, recorded and celebrated." Staudt says that "The Winter"s Tale," the title poem of The Winter"s Task, "celebrates the laborer"s pursuit of work for its own sake, as he moves out of himself and lays hold of a fundamental and objective reality ".
Works
book
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Collected Poems & Translations: Robert Wells
( Developing and expanding the explorations of previous w...)
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Lusus
(This title is a volume of poems rooted in the traditions ...)
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(Lusus) Author: Robert Wells published on (July, 1999)
(This title is a volume of poems rooted in the traditions ...)
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Collected Poems & Translations: Robert Wells
