Three sumptuous new hardcover editions inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age era. Lesbia, though, could reduce him to a clod, and the carefully staged struggle between the urbane Catullus and his besotted, humourless alter ego is a feature of his work. Catullus’ poetry introduces a circle of friends who insist on standards of urbanity and wit in their social relations. Whether he is flexing his masculinity or waggling his tail the performance is intended, as David Wray has put it, to make us gasp. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use. I am interested in supervising PhD students in: For more details, please see my full research profile. Acclaimed cover designer and illustrator Coralie Bickford-Smith celebrates F. Scott Fitzgerald with designs that reflect what she refers to as "the elegance and glamour of the Art Deco period [and a] sense of ornate detail fused with the modernist aesthetic of mechanical repetition." Peter Green’s splendid new translation of Catullus makes quite a substantial volume: more than three hundred pages in all, with an introduction, parallel text in Latin and English, notes, glossary and index. Catullus died at the age of 30, which is part of the reason his body of work is so small. Refresh and try again. Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. 28 Little Russell Street From the Greek Alexandrians, the New Poets took their distaste for long poems and their preference for technical perfection and learning over weightiness and volume. Catullus is being disingenuous here, since, like other Romans, he is only too happy to link personal qualities with literary style. Please change your browser settings to allow Javascript content to run. Reading the poetry in relation to the drama of position played out between poet, poem, and reader, the author produces a fresh interpretation of almost all of Catullus's oeuvre. Would he be immortalised as the sort of person who would swallow something this bald? C. Helvius Cinna spent nine years writing a short narrative poem called Zmyrna, about the eponymous mythical heroine who committed incest with her father. Running through the book is an analysis of the ideological stakes behind the construction of the author Catullus in twentieth-century scholarship and of the agenda governing the interpreter's position in relation to Catullus. Catullus’ father counted Julius Caesar among his friends. Fortunately, it is not the most interesting. This poem about a longed-for Golden Age when gods mingled with men ends with a wedding song that anticipates its dissolution (the child of Peleus and Thetis will be Achilles). William Fitzgerald has 38 books on Goodreads with 255 ratings. Green’s excellent notes lay out some of the possibilities, including the speculation that Catullus is thanking Cicero for sending him some of his (wretched) poetry. Up yours.’ Reading his kiss poems we may, like Furius and Aurelius, think that we catch Catullus with(out) his pants down, but it’s just as plausible that we are manoeuvred into taking on the effeminate subjectivity of the poem we are reading. Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne takes its cue from Catullus’ extravagant profusion of sights, sounds and sensations. London, WC1A 2HN Sweetest-spoken of Romulus’ descendants, past or present, Marcus Tullius, and all who may yet follow in the distant future – warmest thanks to you herewith from Catullus, who’s the worst of all poets, by as much the worst of all living poets, as yourself are best of all courtroom lawyers for your clients. William Fitzgerald has 38 books on Goodreads with 255 ratings. Please include name, address, and a telephone number. Error rating book. The hendecasyllables of the poems earlier in the collection, on the other hand, tend to be more conversational. F. Scott FitzgeraldIllustrator: Coralie Bickford-Smith William FitzGerald, S.J., who taught in the department from the 1960s to the 1980s. Here Catullus’ ironies of weakness and strength are played out on a geopolitical scale. W. Fitzgerald, Vice President, St. Colman's College, Fermoy, Delivered Before the Cork Young Men's Society, November 10th, 1870, Speaking About Death: Poetic Resources for Ministers of Consolation, Duties of the Parochial Clergy: A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, at the Primary Visitation, in October, 1857. "Elle UK, "The Art-Deco inspired designs by Coralie Bickford-Smith evoke the elegance and glamour of a glittering era. Their nugatory quality is deliberately provoking, intriguing and puzzling. It acquired a commentary within a generation or two. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. This site requires the use of Javascript to provide the best possible experience. Ultimately the easiest to read of all Fitzgerald’s works, Gatsby’s world comes alive through the meticulous story-telling of … Cicero’s portrait of this powerful and strong-willed woman is a masterpiece of invective, and this ‘Medea of the Palatine’ or ‘two-bit Clytemnestra’ seems to have been as fascinating to him as she was to Catullus. The woman in question was almost certainly Clodia, the wife of Q. Caecilius Metellus Celer, consul in 60-59 BCE. william.fitzgerald@kcl.ac.uk Biography After a BA at Oxford in Classics (1974) I took a PhD at Princeton University in Comparative Literature (1981) and then taught in the States for many years, at the University of California (San Diego and Berkeley). Green catches the solemn, self-righteous tone but plays down the crude structural balances: there’s no enjambment between the couplets in Catullus’ Latin. Mamurra appears under the pseudonym Mentula (‘Prick’) in several of Catullus’ poems, but more transparently in one which begins: ‘They’re well matched, that pair of shameless buggers,/Bitch-queens both of them, Caesar and Mamurra.’ Caesar, apparently, did not take it well. Including metallic foil-stamped jackets and matching bookmarks, these decadent books are a wonderful complement to Fitzgerald's signature theme and style. His enduring popularity in the second century is attested by Apuleius. The Beautiful and Damned Almost as famous as ‘I hate and love’ is the first line of Catullus’ invitation to love: Let’s live, Lesbia mine, and love – and as for scandal, all the gossip, old men’s strictures, value the lot at no more than a farthing! What, they seem to say, makes this note to Cicero a poem? We are invited to share in some intimacy or vulnerable moment only to have the tables turned on us. United Kingdom, Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding, 'Claiming Inferiority: Weakness into Strength', Pliny and Martial: Dupes and Non-Dupes in the Early Empire, The Production of Space in Latin Literature, Catullus' bedspread: The life of Rome's most erotic poet, Augustan Gothic: Alexander Pope Reads Ovid, https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198724728.003.0010, Resonance: The Sonic Environment of Vergil's Eclogues, Latin literature (especially Latin lyric, epigram and elegiac poetry; Latin letters; Roman novel; Aulus Gellius), Topics in comparative literature and reception of the Classics.
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