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Geoffrey Lehmann's Nero Poems is an ambitious collection that shows his lyric facility to great advantage. Occasionally recalling the that pungencies of Juvenal's satires and the asperity of Catullus's and Martial's epigrams, the poems invite interpretations of Nero made by his contemporaries the poems mark a pleasant turning in the attempts of contemporary Australian poets to construct 'sequences of poems. We are not only familiar with single monologues on "classical' themes (what Alan Wearne refers to as all those poems after Browning on Italian Popes) and sequences taking on various voices (William Hart-Smith's "Christopher Columbus" standing out as a remarkably sustained work), but more recently with Peter Porter's After Martial, with which Lehmann's collection may inevitably come to be compared, and notably to Lehmann's advantage at that: both collections are outstanding for their sophistication, wit, and range.' (Introduction)
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Imperial Nigrescences
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- Nero's Poems : Translations of the Public and Private Poems of the Emperor Nero 1981 selected work poetry
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