Catalogue information

LastDodo number
1461017
Area
Books
Title
Londinias
subtitle
Literary collection
Literary number
Addition to number
Publisher
Series / hero
Original title
Translator
Illustrator
Year
1877
Print Run
First edition
Type of book
Number of pages
43
Number produced
Dimensions
 x  cm
ISBN10
ISBN13
Barcode / EAN / UPC
Language / dialect
Country of publication
Details

Londinias is a nice little book: it finds its "modern" starting point in a journey by Vosmaer with some friends to London, but deals with the material in hexameters and entirely in the spirit of the classic epic. This results in a comic effect due to the contrast between modern material and 'classical' treatment of that material.Vosmaer's last assessor considers Londinias to be his 'coolest' work, but it is also true for this work, as for many of Vosmaer's writings, that the whole- and-all leans against classic examples. The poem is also important for the knowledge of Vosmaer's aesthetic views.

This text has been translated automatically from Dutch

Click here for the original text