Among other radical notions, Lucretius, who was a follower of the ... but lost books. The Swerve is one of those brilliant works of non-fiction that's so jam-packed with ideas and stories it ...

including Lucretius’ “On the Nature of Things,” and W.W. Norton has reissued Frank O. Copley’s translation of this wondrous poem to coincide with Stephen Greenblatt’s “The Swerve: How ...

In his new book, “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” author Stephen Greenblatt unearths the tale of a book collector whose discovery of poet Lucretius’ “On the Nature of Things ...

The swerve Greenblatt has in mind, rather, is the abrupt, unpredictable movement of atoms that, according to the ancient Roman poet Lucretius, makes possible the creation and destruction of ...

"The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" is as ... "On the Nature of Things," a book-length poem composed in 58 B.C. by Lucretius, a Roman about whom virtually nothing reliable is known.

Years ago, the Yale critic Harold Bloom promulgated "clinamen" — that is, "the swerve," a term derived from Lucretius's philosophical poem "On the Nature of Things" — as central to his ...

Surely, sales of Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things" will ... but lost books. The Swerve is one of those brilliant works of non-fiction that's so jam-packed with ideas and stories it literally ...