Gaius Valerius Catullus
Catullus: Selected Poems
Catullus: Selected Poems
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Catullus' poems, dating back to the 4th century BCE, are still alive and moving today, with their beauty, wit, tenderness, and heartbreak. Stephen Mitchell's translations bring his rhythms to vibrant new life, allowing contemporary readers to hear the formal beauty of his verse and its content, which is raw and direct.
Format: Hardback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 25 June 2024
Publisher: Yale University Press
The poems of Catullus are a testament to the enduring power of poetry to capture the essence of human experience and to inspire generations to come.
Catullus, a poet of immense talent and passion, has left behind a legacy of poetry that has captivated readers for centuries. In the fourteenth century, a manuscript was discovered in Verona that had been lost for over a thousand years, containing the poems of Catullus. These poems, characterized by their beauty, wit, tenderness, and heartbreak, continue to resonate with readers today as they did two thousand years ago. Catullus's love poems, in particular, have earned him widespread admiration, as they capture the joy and the savage self-inflicted torments of his "miserable, disastrous love affair" in a way that has few parallels in world literature. Stephen Mitchell, renowned for his ability to bring ancient texts to life, has now translated Catullus's poems for a new generation of readers. These translations reimagine Catullus's rhythms in English, allowing contemporary readers to appreciate the formal beauty of his verse as well as its content, which Robert Lowell describes as "much more raw and direct than anything in English." Catullus's poems serve as a testament to the enduring power of poetry to capture the essence of human experience and inspire generations to come.
Weight: 378g
Dimension: 148 x 224 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300275292
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