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| Name: |
Gaius Valerius Catullus | | Birth Date: |
c. 84 B.C. | | Death Date: |
c. 54 B.C. | | Place of Birth: |
Verona, Italy | | Place of Death: |
Rome, Italy | | Nationality: |
Roman | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet |
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 Biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus
1,341 words, approx. 5 pages
 Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84-ca. 54 BC) was a Roman lyric poet. He is best known for the intense poems which reflect various stages in his love affair with "Lesbia." Catullus belonged to a circle of neoteroi, or "new poets," who used as their models... summary from source:
Biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus
9,497 words, approx. 32 pages
 The poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus has had two lives. In Rome, Catullus and his generation, the "new poets," played an essential role in the development of Augustan poetry. They helped to create the possibility that one might be a poet by... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Catullus Information
1,853 words, approx. 6 pages
Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) was a Roman poet of the 1st century BC. His work remains widely studied, and continues to influence poetry and other...
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 The New York Observer Dear Dmitri Nabokov: Don\'d5t Burn Laura! Let Draft Gather Dust
11/27/2005: 2,124 words, approx. 7 pagesOh my God, I’ve stumbled upon what seems to be a terrible literary tragedy in the making. Or perhaps we’re getting what we deserve. But I feel I would be remiss not to alert the world of letters to the dire new twist in the... summary from source:
The New York Observer Dear Dmitri Nabokov: Don't Burn Laura! Let Draft Gather Dust
11/27/2005: 2,126 words, approx. 7 pagesOh my God, I’ve stumbled upon what seems to be a terrible literary tragedy in the making. Or perhaps we’re getting what we deserve. But I feel I would be remiss not to alert the world of letters to the dire new twist in...
  Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Kenneth Quinn
17,789 words, approx. 59 pages
In the following essay, Quinn explores Catullus's poems that focus upon political and social commentary: those poems which, in the main, "establish a norm (if one can speak of a norm in connexion with a segment of society whose habits are often so abnormal), set against which the Lesbia affair stands out in sharp contrast, without any more needing to be said."
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Critical Essay by R. O. A. M. Lyne
14,989 words, approx. 50 pages
Wiseman on understanding Catullus's poetry: … Why] should we expect his design to be immediately apparent to us? Just because he was capable of writing individual poems of such direct simplicity that they still speak to us face to face after two millenia, it does not follow that he was always simple, much less that his tastes and attitudes necessarily coincide with ours.
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Critical Essay by Stuart G. P. Small
11,212 words, approx. 37 pages
Below, Small examines Catullus's most ambitious work, "Poem 64," and draws critical conclusions about the poet and his view of the role of poetry as a vehicle of self-expression, self-understanding, artistic immortality, and power "to celebrate whatever may merit praise …, to punish the wicked, to expose the inept, to defend the helpless and to retaliate upon the ungrateful."
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