Silence in Catullus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Silence in Catullus write by Benjamin Eldon Stevens. This book was released on 2013-12-18. Silence in Catullus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Both passionate and artful, learned and bawdy, Catullus is one of the best-known and critically significant poets from classical antiquity. An intriguing aspect of his poetry that has been neglected by scholars is his interest in silence, from the pauses that shape everyday conversation to linguistic taboos and cultural suppressions and the absolute silence of death. In Silence in Catullus, Benjamin Eldon Stevens offers fresh readings of this Roman poet's most important works, focusing on his purposeful evocations of silence. This deep and varied "poetics of silence" takes on many forms in Catullus's poetic corpus: underscoring the lyricism of his poetry; highlighting themes of desire, immortality-in-culture, and decay; accenting its structures and rhythms; and, Stevens suggests, even articulating underlying philosophies. Combining classical philological methods, contemporary approaches to silence in modern literature, and the most recent Catullan scholarship, this imaginative examination of Catullus offers a new interpretation of one of the ancient world's most influential and inimitable voices.
The Complete Poetry of Catullus
The Complete Poetry of Catullus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Poetry of Catullus write by Catullus. This book was released on 2002-07-15. The Complete Poetry of Catullus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Catullus’ life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesar’s Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consul’s wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young men. Catullus is drawn into politics and becomes a cocky critic of Caesar, writing poems that dub Julius a low-life pig and a pervert. Not surprisingly, soon after, no more is heard of Catullus. David Mulroy brings to life the witty, poignant, and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in the Eternal City, reacting to real people and events in a Rome full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. Mulroy’s lively, rhythmic translations of the poems are enhanced by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes that ease the way for anyone who is not a Latin scholar.
Poetic Interplay
Poetic Interplay - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetic Interplay write by Michael C.J. Putnam. This book was released on 2009-04-11. Poetic Interplay available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC. Yet, though they are the undisputed masters of the lyric voice in Roman poetry, Horace directly mentions his great predecessor, Catullus, only once, and this reference has often been taken as mocking. In fact, Horace's allusion, far from disparaging Catullus, pays him a discreet compliment by suggesting the challenge that his accomplishment presented to his successors, including Horace himself. In Poetic Interplay, the first book-length study of Catullus's influence on Horace, Michael Putnam shows that the earlier poet was probably the single most important source of inspiration for Horace's Odes, the later author's magnum opus. Except in some half-dozen poems, Catullus is not, technically, writing lyric because his favored meters do not fall into that category. Nonetheless, however disparate their preferred genres and their stylistic usage, Horace found in the poetry of Catullus, whatever its mode of presentation, a constant stimulus for his imagination. And, despite the differences between the two poets, Putnam's close readings reveal that many of Horace's poems echo Catullus verbally, thematically, or both. By illustrating how Horace often found his own voice even as he acknowledged Catullus's genius, Putnam guides us to a deeper appreciation of the earlier poet as well.
Selections from Catullus
Selections from Catullus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selections from Catullus write by Gaius Valerius Catullus. This book was released on 1849. Selections from Catullus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Catullus Redivivus
Catullus Redivivus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catullus Redivivus write by Gaius Valerius Catullus. This book was released on 1986. Catullus Redivivus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
