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Peter Reading: Lucretian

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Lucretian

Last Poems London: Chatto and Windus, 1994

287

Comment Meditation on Epicurus with allusions to the religious gullibility of Agamemnon (slaughter of Iphigenia at Aulis) and modern figures ('How much idiot evil / gormless Deists engender'); moving on to exploration of the life cycle of organisms, the madness of love and apocalyptic plague.