Editing Propertius (section)

== Modern assessment ==
In the 20th century [[Ezra Pound]]'s poem "Homage to Sextus Propertius" cast Propertius as something of a satirist and political dissident,<ref>Slavitt, p. 8</ref> and his translation/interpretation of the elegies presented them as ancient examples of Pound's own [[Imagism|Imagist]] theory of art. Pound identified in Propertius an example of what he called (in "How to Read") 'logopoeia', "the dance of the intellect among words." [[Gilbert Highet]], in ''Poets in a Landscape'', attributed this to Propertius' use of mythic allusions and circumlocution, which Pound mimics to more comic effect in his ''Homage''. The imagist interpretation, the poet's tendency to sustain an interior monologue, and the deeply personal nature of his poetry have made Propertius a favorite in the modern age. In 1906 [[J. S. Phillimore]] presented a prose translation of Propertius, published by [[Oxford University Press]]. Three modern English translations of his work have appeared since 2000,<ref>Slavitt's translation appeared in 2002, Katz's 2004 translation was a winner of the 2005 [[National Translation Award]], American Literary Translators Association.</ref> and the playwright [[Tom Stoppard]] suggests in his best-known work ''[[The Invention of Love]]'' that the poet was responsible for much of what the West regards today as "romantic love". The most recent translation appeared in September 2018 from [[Carcanet Press]], and was a [[Poetry Book Society]] Autumn Recommended Translation. The collection entitled ''Poems'' ({{ISBN|9781784106515}}) is edited by Patrick Worsnip with a foreword by Peter Heslin.