Catullus (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
168
Utgivningsdatum
2024-06-25
Förlag
Yale University Press
Översättare
Stephen Mitchell
Dimensioner
220 x 138 x 22 mm
Vikt
386 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780300275292

Catullus

Selected Poems

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A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries Catulluss verses still ring true, reminding readers that the habits of the heart havent changed in millennia.Publishers Weekly In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catullus (c. 84c. 54 BCE), considered by many to be one of the greatest poets who ever lived. These poems, with their beauty, wit, tenderness, and heartbreak, are still as alive and moving today as they were two thousand years ago. They are dense, subtle, witty, ardent, fearless, deeply uncensored, nasty (sometimes), petty (sometimes), and always beautiful. Its especially his love poems that have earned readers admiration over the centuries; the joy and the savage self-inflicted torments that he underwent in his miserable, disastrous love affair have been shaped into poems that for honesty and emotional power have few parallels in world literature. Stephen Mitchell, who is known for bringing ancient texts to vibrant new life, has now translated Catulluss poems for a new generation of readers. These are the first translations of Catullus to reimagine his rhythms in English and thus to let contemporary readers hear the formal beauty of his verse as well as its content, which Robert Lowell calls much more raw and direct than anything in English.
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Mitchell beautifully translates Catullus, retaining the original poems hendecasyllabic form while lending a punchy, plucky voice to the ancient poet. . . . Catulluss verses still ring true, reminding readers that the habits of the heart havent changed in millennia.Publishers Weekly What a dream combination, Stephen Mitchell and Catullus! Ive always loved Catullus for his irreverence, his passion, his idiosyncratic voice, which echoes down the centuries. Now Mitchell has made him one of us, a contemporary poet whose verse unveils the human condition in all its madness and grace. Mitchells rare poetic gift shimmers through these translations.Jay Parini, author of New and Collected Poems, 19752015 The genius of Stephen Mitchell in these new translations is to make a friend of Catullusa new incarnation of this bad boy ancient Roman poet, for all those who are sensitive to beauty.Daniel Halpern, author of Something Shining and founding publisher, Ecco Is there any language that Stephen Mitchell cant bring to life for readers of English? Here, in his first foray into Latin, he does for Catullus what hes already done for Rilke, Neruda, and Yehuda Amichai: capture a great lyric voice with freshness, vigor and energy. This version belongs on the bookshelf of every poetry reader.James Romm, author of Demetrius: Sacker of Cities and The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom and series editor, Ancient Lives

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Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84c. 54 BCE) was one of the most influential lyric poets of ancient Rome. Stephen Mitchells many books include the best-selling Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, The Book of Job, The Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Gospel According to Jesus, The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Beowulf.