Long poem · 1916

Of the Nature of Things

by Lucretius

Translated by William Ellery Leonard (1916)

Lucretius's Latin didactic poem De rerum natura, an exposition of Epicurean atomism in six books, rendered into English blank verse by William Ellery Leonard.

Contents · 6 parts

• Book Iabout 1340 lines
• Book IIabout 1510 lines
• Book IIIabout 1350 lines
• Book IVabout 1700 lines
• Book Vabout 2050 lines
• Book VIabout 1780 lines

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