Love Poems of Catullus
$31.38
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
3 October 2023
Summary
Catullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate, witty, vivid, and tender poets of antiquity. Perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to truthfully reveal the fleeting instants of his bare psyche: moments of erotic passion, of scorn and jealousy, of heartfelt devotion, of consuming love. The cycle of poems to his love, “Lesbia,” have entranced poets and translators across the centuries, enriching many different traditions in English-language poetry.
This anthology of Catullus’s lo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780811237499 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0811237494 |
| Author: | Gaius Valerius Catullus, Tynan Kogane |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Imprint: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 89g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 104mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Catullus wrote the loveliest of lovely things—and also the loathesomest.” – Robert Frost
“Catullus could rub words so hard / together their friction burned a / heat that warms / us now 2000 years away.” – James Laughlin
“This lively compilation highlights one of antiquity’s most tender, witty, and enduring voices.” – Publishers Weekly
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic. His poems—116 in total survive—have been admired by and used as a reference point for countless other writers and artists, including Petrarch, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Cy Twombly, and Anne Carson.
Tynan Kogane is an editor at New Directions.
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