Catullus
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 4.2 | 148 Users | 16 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Oxford Readings in Catullus |
| ISBN: | 0300052006 (ISBN13: 9780300052008) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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The most popular of the Roman poets, Catullus is known for the accessibility of his witty and erotic love poems. In this book Charles Martin, himself a poet, offers a deeper reading of Catullus, revealing the art and intelligence behind the seemingly spontaneous verse. Martin considers Catullus's life, habits of composition, and the circumstances in which he worked. He places him among the modernists of his age, who created a new ironic and subjective poetics, and he shows the affinity between Catullus and the modernists of our own age. Martin offers original interpretations of Catullus's poems, viewing the love poems to "Lesbia" as a unified, artfully arranged poetic sequence, and the short poems, often dismissed as unworthy of serious critical attention, as the irreverent products of a sophisticated poetic innovator. Unlike Horace, Virgil, and Ovid, Catullus did not influence our literary culture until the beginning of the modern era, but he is now regarded as a poet who speaks to our age with a singular directness. Pointing to Catullus's self-awareness, playfulness, and comic invention and to the elaborate complexity of his experiments in poetic form, Martin gives both the scholar and the general reader a fresh appreciation of his poetic art.Define Based On Books Catullus
| Title | : | Catullus |
| Author | : | Catullus |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | May 27th 1992 by Yale University Press (first published January 1st 1904) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Classics. Nonfiction. Roman. Literature. Criticism. Literary Criticism |
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Ratings: 4.2 From 148 Users | 16 ReviewsCommentary Based On Books Catullus
delectable poetry from the raunchiest RomanThis rather anachronistic, decidedly un-bowdlerized translation of Catullus' poems is my favorite of the translations I've read so far. It's overtly bawdy and poignant by turns.
This is not actually a translation of Catullus, but a scholarly book ABOUT Catullus (by Charles Martin, who HAS written a translation, but, as I said, this is not it). It does INCLUDE translations, but only as they happen to come up in the discussion.My problems with this book are threefold. First, it wasn't sure whether it wanted to be an introduction or a focused scholarly argument, so it ends up being a not-quite-there version of both. This led to the second issue, that even where I was
Catullus (1990)
Oh. My. Gosh...Catullus is my one true love..... seriously... lol I am in love with his poetry...
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