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Author: Daisy Dunn Publisher: William Collins ISBN: 9780007554324 Category : Poets, Latin Languages : en Pages : 0
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A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his verse. This superb book gives a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history through the eyes of one of Rome's greatest writers. Living through the debauchery, decadence and spectacle of the crumbling Roman Republic, Catullus remains famous for the sharp, immediate poetry with which he skewered Rome's sparring titans - Pompey, Crassus and his father's friend, Julius Caesar. But it was for his erotic, scandalous but often tender love elegies that he became best known, inspired above all by his own lasting affair with a married woman whom he immortalised in his verse as 'Lesbia'. A monumental figure for poets from Ovid and Virgil onwards, his journey across youth and experience, from Verona to Rome, Bithynia to Lake Garda, is traced in Daisy Dunn's brilliant portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history.
Author: Daisy Dunn Publisher: William Collins ISBN: 9780007554324 Category : Poets, Latin Languages : en Pages : 0
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A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his verse. This superb book gives a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history through the eyes of one of Rome's greatest writers. Living through the debauchery, decadence and spectacle of the crumbling Roman Republic, Catullus remains famous for the sharp, immediate poetry with which he skewered Rome's sparring titans - Pompey, Crassus and his father's friend, Julius Caesar. But it was for his erotic, scandalous but often tender love elegies that he became best known, inspired above all by his own lasting affair with a married woman whom he immortalised in his verse as 'Lesbia'. A monumental figure for poets from Ovid and Virgil onwards, his journey across youth and experience, from Verona to Rome, Bithynia to Lake Garda, is traced in Daisy Dunn's brilliant portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history.
Author: Catullus Publisher: Graphic Arts Books ISBN: 1513274015 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 73
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The Poems of Catullus describes the lifestyle of the Latin poet Catullus, his friends, and his lover, Lesbia. Catullus writes about each of his subjects in tones unique to them. With wild stories of the trouble and comradery shared by his friends, Catullus provides insight on more scandalous aspects of high society Roman culture. However, Catullus’ most shocking and compelling subject is his lover, Lesbia, the wife of an aristocrat. The two share a secret and sensual love, taboo not just because of the infidelity, but because Lesbia is many years older than Catullus. Throughout his poems, Catullus depicts their complicated relationship, first in a tender, lustful way, detailing their affairs, then gradually becomes more heated with angst and confusion. In his exploration of their relationship, Catullus embodies the possibility of simultaneously loving and hating someone. With vivid emotion and imagery, The Poems of Catullus provide a clear picture of the poet, his friends, and his lover and invoke a strong impression on its audience. Because of the deep emotions infused with each word and the visceral depictions of ancient Roman life, this collection of poetry is relatable to a modern-day audience, and is an essential educational source. Catullus paved the way and inspired change in the art of poetry, influencing countless poets and poetry styles. The Poems of Catullus also helped create the idea of poetry as a profession. The Poems of Catullus serves a valuable and educational source, enlightening audiences on the culture of the upper-class of the late Roman Republic. However, because Catullus also explores the complex human emotions regarding friendship, sex, and love, The Poems of Catullus have proven to be a timeless testament to the duality of humankind, embracing emotions that lie between the extremes in the spectrum of feeling. Catering to a contemporary audience, this edition of The Poems of Catullus features a new, eye-catching cover design and is reprinted in a modern font to accompany the timeless exploration of human emotion and the humorous, exciting life events of the influential poet Catullus.
Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781362326564 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 472
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Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus Publisher: ISBN: 9781410104311 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 412
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Albius Tibullus (54-19 B. C.) a Roman poet. Three books of elegies ascribed to him have come down to us. There are English translations by Dr. Grainger (17 52); Cranstoun (London, 1872).
Author: Charles Martin Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300052008 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 220
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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.
Author: Walter Keating Kelly Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781019884805 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Gaius Valerius, George Lamb, James Grainger, Pervigilium Veneris, Tibullus Tibullus, and Walter Keating Kelly offer readers a complete translation of the erotic poems of Catullus and Tibullus. This book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of erotic literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Walter K. Kelly Publisher: ISBN: 9781331388128 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 466
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Excerpt from Erotica: The Poems of Catullus and Tibullus, and the Vigil of Venus; A Literal Prose Translation With Notes A meagre array of facts more or less controverted, and a few critical remarks, are all we can offer towards a biography of Valerius Catullus. We learn from the testimony of many ancient writers, that he was a native of Verona or its immediate neighbourhood; and the Marquis Scipio Maffei, himself a Veronese, asserts that in his day there were still traits of the language of Catullus in the dialect of his countrymen. Whether the poets prajnomen was Cains or Quintus is uncertain, the former being assigned to him by Apuleius, the latter by Pliny. A more important question is that which concerns the dates of his birth and death. According to Hieronymus, in the Eusebian chronicle, he was born b.c. 87, and died in his thirtieth year, b.c. 57.The second date is undoubtedly erroneous, for we liave positive evidence from his own works that he was alive in the consulship of Vatinius, b.c. 47. It is evident too that he must have survived at least till b.c. 45, for Cicero, in his Letters, talks of the verses of Catullus against Caesar and Mamurra (xxix.) as newly written, and first seen by Caesar in that year. The chronologers mistake as to the time of the poets death, throws some doubt also on that which he assigns to his birth. We shall however be exact enough for all literary purposes, if we conclude with Dunlop that Catullus "was nearly contemporary with Lucretius, having come into the world a few years after him, and having survived him but a short period." It is not certain that the poet belonged to the patrician family of the Valerii, but his father must have been a person of some consideration, for he was the friend and habitual entertainer of Julius Caesar. The son took up his abode in Rome in the very spring of youth (Ixviii. 15) and plunged without restraint into all the expensive pleasures of the best - that is to say, the most debauched - society. This is sulhcient to account for the jocular complaints of poverty interspersed through his writings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: Daisy Dunn
Author: Daisy Dunn
Author: Catullus
Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus
Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus
Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus
Author: Charles Martin
Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus
Author: Walter Keating Kelly
Author: Walter K. Kelly
Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus