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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lucretius had a rich source of inspiration ... which in turn might have caused a dramatic swerve into our modern world is, in Greenblatt’s hands, deservedly and ably rescued.

Jeff Glor talks to Stephen Greenblatt about "The Swerve," the story of an Italian book-hunter whose dogged pursuit of a long-lost manuscript changed the world.