Lanterna Rally

Author: H. G. Blomfield

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-05

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781333478568

Excerpt from The Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus Setinus Balbus, Vol. 1: Translated Into English Prose With Introduction and Notes I AM aware that it is the custom for a writer who attempts to break new ground, to suggest, and even to believe himself, that he is supplying a long-felt want I, however, labour under no such delusion, and may say at once that I am well aware that there never has been, nor is there likely to be, a great, or indeed any, demand for an edition of Valerius Flacons; and, so far from attempting to supply any such real or supposed demand, I am rather trying myself to create it. No doubt such an attempt is in the nature of things foredoomed to failure; but, if so, I can only plead that it seemed to me better to have fought and lost than never to have fought at all, and that any endeavour, however feeble, to rescue from oblivion a poet whom I have always thought unduly neglected, was at any rate worth making, and might perhaps ultimately bear fruit in the appreciation of one who was certainly not the least attractive figure in the Silver Age of Latin poetry, and of whom so great a critic as Quintilian1 could say, with genuine and unaffected regret. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.