Catullus

By: Charles Martin

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Paperback | 27 May 1992 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Classical Literary Studies Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets History

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Buried Presents
"The Very Worst of Poets"	p. 3
The Book of Catullus	p. 26
Life Into Art	p. 37
Poetic License
Of Poetry and Playfulness	p. 67
Imitations and Excoriations	p. 92
Transformations of the Gift	p. 121
Vanishing Lines
On Passionate Virtuosity in a Poem of Some Length	p. 151
Lifting the Poet's Fingerprints: A Reading of Poems 61-68	p. 172
Notes	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 191
Index	p. 193
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