Modern readings of the Roman poet Catullus' work have always been
constrained by doubts about the surviving text. Does the sequence
of our corpus reflect the artistically coherent and meaningful
arrangement of the poems? Why are the various parts of the
collection so jarringly different in content and emotional tone? To
what extent, if at all, can we explain these shifts by appealing to
Catullus' famously vivid portrayals of his emotions and life
circumstances? Catullus Through his Books argues that we possess
three separate books of poems designed by the poet himself; at key
moments in these books, the poems dramatise the creative activity
of their own composition, embedding apparent autobiographical
details and purportedly revealing the poet's intentions and goals.
These dramas of composition direct us through the poems,
integrating our understanding of each part and generating a
holistic vision of Catullus as poet of self-destroying longing and
irreparable loss.
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