The Poems

Catullus, Peter Whigham, Peter Whigham

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Penguin Classics
17 January 2005

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Poetry by individual poets; Penguin Black Classics

A collection of the beautiful, surprising poems of Catullus.

One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and includes his lyrics to the notorious Clodia Metelli - married, seductive and corrupt - charting the course from rapturous delight in a new affair to the torment of love gone sour; poems to his young friend Iuventius; and longer verse, such as the extraordinary tale of Attis, a Greek youth who castrates himself in a fit of religious ecstasy. Ranging from the tender, moving and passionate to the vicious and even obscene, these are poems of astonishingly modern force and content.

By: Catullus
Edited by: Peter Whigham
Translated by: Peter Whigham
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 191g
ISBN: 9780140449815
ISBN 10: 0140449817
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 17 January 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Poems Acknowledgements Introduction The Poems Glossary of Proper Names

Very little is kown about Gaius Valerius Catullus, though he was probably born around 84BC. he writes as a friend of Cicero and other leading figures, and appears as a leader of the new movement in poetry and a lover of the notorious Clodia Metelli, who was probably the Lesbia of the poems. He strated writing in 69 or 68 and died around 54BC. Peter Whigham taught on verse composition at the University of California, but was essentially a poet full-time. Other publications include The Blue Winged Bee and ASTAPOVO or What We Are To Do. He died in 1987.