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S'està carregant… Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet (2016)de Daisy Dunn
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Unlike any other biography I've read of anyone; quite fascinating how the author cleverly reconstructed Catullus's life mainly from his own poetry and other primary sources. Though scatological and even obscene at times, he was a poet of great feeling, introspection, and intensity. Some of his incisive poems on particular personalities presage Martial or Juvenal. The author used as point of reference #64 -- what she considers his masterpiece, the miniature epic she termed the "Bedspread poem" of extended mythological scenes and Catullus's Five Ages of Mankind -- which led her to relate his other poems to his life: from growing up in Verona, to Rome, to Bithynia on the Black Sea, thence back to Rome and his home on Lake Garda. The "Lesbia" poems trace his love affair with Clodia Metelli, from fevered beginning through love/hate to its end, where he tells two fellow poets [and us]: "And may she not expect my love as before,/Which through her fault has fallen like a flower/On the edge of a meadow, touched/By a plough passing by." From Poem #11. We enter into Catullus's world, also the political conditions, machinations, and upheaval of the Late Republic. Ms. Dunn has also provided interesting analyses of some of the poems -- what she thinks are subtle meanings between the lines. She does fill in gaps in setting the scenes with her own words: for instance, when Catullus first climbs the Palatine to the Metellus home, his voyage home from Bithynia and last, where we see him on the shore of Lake Garda. He watches the water "lick the land like tears." http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/titian-bacchus-and-ariadne Based on the Ariadne and Bacchus myth from the "Bedspread poem". Commissioned from Titian by the Italian Renaissance nobleman Alfonso III, d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Highly recommended. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"Daisy Dunn's vivid narrative rediscovers the life and poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first "modern" poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his timeless verse"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)874.01Literature Latin Latin lyric poetry to ca. 499, Roman periodLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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Should have been interesting but it left me feeling 'meh'. ( )