Product Description

Mario Petrucci is one of the most dynamic and original poets
writing in English. "Shrapnel and Sheets" (Headland) and "Heavy Water: a
poem for Chernobyl" (Enitharmon) both received national acclaim, including
a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and the Daily Telegraph/Arvon Prize.
Petrucci's commitment to a formal versatility and inventiveness appropriate
to the ethical and spiritual substance of his work has few, if any,
parallels today, and has won him many admirers. No one is better equipped
to present Catullus to the modern reader: the Roman poet's urgency, wit and
bite find here equivalents possessing all of the power and ribald energy of
their famous originals.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #229504 in Books
• Published on: 1989-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 376 pages

Customer Reviews

Major new edition of Catullus should become standard
Thomson's edition of Catullus finally weds a commentary to his twenty-odd year old critical text. For the scholar of neoteric poetry, Thomson's book is a must; undergraduates will find it too vast and too unconcerned with elementary matters (also with literary matters) but very helpful for bibliography on each poem (a role Quinn's text was growing a bit long in the tooth for). Graduate students are compelled to use this as their standard text. Thomson is at his best when unraveling the often diffuse manuscript tradition of this often-read, little-understood poet. For classicists with only a passing interest in Catullus and his work, Fordyce (supplemented by Quinn for the "obscene" poems) remains more than usable.