Catullus

Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, and a past president of the American Philological Association. She is the author of Catullus and His Renaissance Readers (1993), Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World (1999), and The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception (2008), and the editor of Catullus in English (2001), and Catullus (2007).

"Gaisser (emer., Bryn Mawr College), who has written extensively on ancient Roman poetry and Renaissance Latin literature, has produced an excellent comprehensive guide to the major Roman poet Catullus." (CHOICE, December 2009) "Such a simple and yet profound book could only have been written by someone with the authority conferred by a detailed knowledge of Catullus' work, its transmission and its reception over the ages. … I consider [it] the best existing survey on Catullus." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, December 2009)

• List of Figures viii Preface ix1 Introduction: The Young Poet in Rome 12 Poetry Books 223 The Catullan Persona 454 What Makes It Poetry 725 Poetic Architecture 1006 Songs for Mixed Voices: Allusions, Intertexts, and Translations 1337 Receiving Catullus 1: From Antiquity through the Sixteenth Century 1668 Receiving Catullus 2: England and America 194Appendix 1 Catullus' Meters 222Appendix 2 Glossary of Metrical and Rhetorical Terms 223Bibliography 225General Index 235Index of Catullus' Poems 242