The Books of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus
A new translation of the Roman poet Catullus which reinvents and reimagines his poetry for the contemporary age.
`One might say the best translation is to have dozens of translations, and this is true for CatullusHe exists in every age because the work is timeless. With grace, elegance, skill, daring, and lyric beauty we find the work all over again in Smith’s magnificent new translation.’ - Peter Gizzi
Gaius Valerius Catullus was born in Verona, northern Italy in 84 BCE and died in Rome in 54 BCE. Little detail about his life survives. What is known is inferred from the poems or from indirect secondary sources. He was a contemporary of Cicero and Caesar, the latter a friend of his father, and an immediate antecedent of the Augustan poets Horace, Propertius and Ovid. His surviving poems are among the finest lyric verse of ancient Rome.; Simon Smith has published five collections of poetry. His third collection, Mercury (Salt), was long-listed for the Costa Prize in 2007. A selected poems, More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry, appeared from Shearsman in 2016, and his latest pamphlet is Salon Noir (Equipage, 2016). He is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, was a Hawthornden Writing Fellow in 2009, and a judge of the National Poetry Prize in 2004. He holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784105501 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784105503 |
| Title | The Books of Catullus |
| Author | Gaius Valerius Catullus |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-03-29 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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