![]() Although Leonard penned his version in the early twentieth century, he chose to adhere to both the vocabulary and meter (alternating between pentameter and hexameter) of Elizabethan-era poetry. The version read here is an English verse translation written by William Ellery Leonard. ![]() Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers, the original Latin version (entitled De Rerum Natura) was written in the form of an extended poem in hexameter, with a beauty of style that was admired and emulated by his successors, including Ovid and Cicero. On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. ![]() Translated by William Ellery Leonard (1876 - 1944) Download cover art Download CD case insert On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation) ![]()
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