Charles Martin
Catullus
- ISBN 13:
- 9780300052008
- author:
- Charles Martin
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven & London
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1992
- Pages:
- 192
- Dimensions:
- 142mm X 218mm
- Genre:
- Literature
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Charles Martin offers a fresh reading of the Roman poet Catullus, exploring the art and intelligence behind his witty and erotic love poems. Martin places Catullus among the modernists of his age, who created a new ironic and subjective poetics, and shows the affinity between Catullus and the modernists of our own age.
Martin provides original interpretations of Catullus's poems, viewing the love poems to "Lesbia" as a unified, artfully arranged poetic sequence, and the short poems as the irreverent products of a sophisticated poetic innovator. This book offers a deeper understanding of Catullus's life, habits of composition, and the circumstances in which he worked.
With a focus on Catullus's self-awareness, playfulness, and comic invention, Martin gives both the scholar and the general reader a fresh appreciation of his poetic art. This book is a valuable contribution to the study of Catullus and his place in literary history.
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