Catulla Et Al
Title | Catulla Et Al PDF eBook |
Author | Tiffany Atkinson |
Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Limited |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781852248888 |
Summons the sensual and scandalous spirit of the Latin poet Catullus- his lyricism, diatribe and bawdy- by turns wrenching, cynical and outrageous. A clever, edgy, and intimate collection.
So Many Moving Parts
Title | So Many Moving Parts PDF eBook |
Author | Tiffany Atkinson |
Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Limited |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781852249526 |
o Many Moving Parts, Tiffany Atkinson's third collection, is an eccentric 21st-century meditation on the awkwardness of body and spirit and their unexpected, often unwanted intrusions into the business of everyday life. Lyrical and experimental by turns, these poems push familiar events - commuting, telephones, babysitting, foreign travel - to open out toward unanswerable questions and elemental connections with an unstable physical world. A cast of real people observed over a year reveal momentary dramas as in a series of sketches, and the poet turns an ironic, unflinching eye on her own generation's transition from youth to middle age. Bold, wishful, ambivalent, sometimes even grudgingly affectionate, the collection is a spiky celebration of the almost invisible revelations that insist when you only look closely enough. Reviews of Tiffany Atkinson's Catulla et al: 'Thin-skinned, labile, multi-hued and engaging, these poems enact as much as describe. They are speech in action...; The poem...;becomes an event' - Oliver Reynolds, TLS. 'A smart, sardonic and vulnerable updating of Catullus...;Atkinson's versions are in the finest tradition of creative adaptation: keeping the originals as ballast, but unafraid to sail off on their own tangents...; Other poets translate Catullus; Atkinson creates Catulla, a modern, anxious, sympathetic and merciless persona, caught up in a life she sees through but can't quite get beyond' - Patrick McGuinness, Guardian. 'Occasional poems start conventionally enough in landscape of the weather and disclose their depths through tautness of style and singularly precise imagery. Others...;riskily balance captivating surfaces and dark narrative lacunae' - Douglas Houston, Poetry Review. 'Catulla augments Atkinson's fabulous inventory of metaphor and feeds her poems the drama of living language where lines stop in the middle, don't obey rules. Her work is funny and brave and Catulla exerts a moreish power over it' - Jackie Wills, The Warwick Review.
Lumen
Title | Lumen PDF eBook |
Author | Tiffany Atkinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2021-02-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781780375304 |
Tiffany Atkinson's fourth collection asks how poetry may help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love.
Chasing Catullus
Title | Chasing Catullus PDF eBook |
Author | Josephine Balmer |
Publisher | Bloodaxe Books |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
This work is a dual book project involving a new translation of Catallus together with the author's own book of poems, versions and translations.
Manual of Classical Erotology (De Figuris Veneris)
Title | Manual of Classical Erotology (De Figuris Veneris) PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Karl Forberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | Erotic literature |
ISBN |
Martial
Title | Martial PDF eBook |
Author | William Fitzgerald |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2021-07-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226252558 |
In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today’s culture, his work has been largely neglected in contemporary scholarship. Arguing that Martial is a major author who deserves more sustained attention, William Fitzgerald provides an insightful tour of his works, shedding new and much-needed light on the Roman poet’s world—and how it might speak to our own. Writing in the late first century CE—when the epigram was firmly embedded in the social life of the Roman elite—Martial published his poems in a series of books that were widely read and enjoyed. Exploring what it means to read such a collection of epigrams, Fitzgerald examines the paradoxical relationship between the self-enclosed epigram and the book of poems that is more than the sum of its parts. And he goes on to show how Martial, by imagining these books being displayed in shops and shipped across the empire to admiring readers, prophetically behaved like a modern author. Chock-full of epigrams itself—in both Latin and English versions—Fitzgerald’s study will delight classicists, literary scholars, and anyone who appreciates an ingenious witticism.
Catullus: Poems
Title | Catullus: Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Gaius Valerius Catullus |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2015-03-02 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1472502647 |
Catullus, who lived from about 84 to 54 BC, was one of ancient Rome's most gifted, versatile and passionate poets. Living at a time of radical social change at the end of the Roman Republic, he belonged to a group of young poets who embraced Hellenistic forms to forge a new literary style, the so-called 'neoterics'. This comprehensive edition includes the complete, unabridged and unbowdlerised poems and is the definitive student edition of Catullus' work. The extensive introduction covers topics including the role of Catullus' literary paramour Lesbia, the few biographical certainties known about Catullus' life and other figures from the contemporary political scene. In addition to this, there is a brief overview of the poems' textual history, discussion of Catullus' style across the collection and linguistic discussions of morphology, vocabulary, syntax and metre. The commentary notes include individual introductions and bibliographies to each poem, as well as line by line notes which translate difficult phrases and gloss obscure words. In addition to this, more detailed explanations of poetic, structural and contextual points are also provided.