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160 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)
ISBN/UID: None
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Carcanet Classics
Publication date: 05 April 2018
Description
The Books of Catullus is the first full English translation to take the Roman poet at his word. Simon Smith’s versions are scholarly yet eccentric, mapping theme and register to contemporary equivalents (such as poem 16, which echoes Frank O’Hara)...
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160 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)
ISBN/UID: None
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Carcanet Classics
Publication date: 05 April 2018
Description
The Books of Catullus is the first full English translation to take the Roman poet at his word. Simon Smith’s versions are scholarly yet eccentric, mapping theme and register to contemporary equivalents (such as poem 16, which echoes Frank O’Hara)...