Catullus

• “Bunting was a shrewd reader of the classics (and other things), and once remarked, “Whether Catullus is being ornamental or direct, he uses invariably the most straightforward Latin syntax, the language of a man talking.””

  Miss her, Catullus? : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

• “Rather wonderfully then, a court case dealing with such specifically modern phenomena as hedge-funds, email communications and Thai prostitutes has stumbled across a question that has been exercising poetry lovers for the last 2000 years: exactly how rude is the poem we now call Catullus XVI?”

  Archive 2009-11-01

• “As the poet of love he recalled Catullus and Tibullus; in political lyricism he suggested d'Aubigny, though with more fervour; as elegiac poet he possessed a grace that was truly Grecian; as the poet of nature he employed the large manner of Lucretius; in polemical prose he was remarkably eloquent.”

  Initiation into Literature

• “After cataloguing authors such as Catullus and Ovid, whose indecencies served to corrupt his adolescent hero, the poet asks:”

  Court Poet & Pornographer

• “Nowadays we tend to think of epigrams (if we can get away from thinking of them as the exclusive franchise of Oscar Wilde) in the pointed sense with which caustic Latin poets such as Catullus and Martial exploited them: terse, stinging poems of a satirical or ribald turn, the epitome of waspish light verse.”

  Poetry Pages - 98.06.10

• “He was the fine flower of the old Oxford education, growing in hedged gardens, sheltered from the winds of heaven, such as Catullus painted in everlasting colours long centuries ago.”

  The Life of Froude

• “On the other hand he devoted himself to seeking for Latin MSS; in 1375 he secured from Verona a copy of Catullus which is still one of the standard texts of the poet (now in Paris, Bib.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

• “Catullus," wrote as even he had not done since the days of "The”

  The Conqueror

• “On the left side of most leaves, Carson defines words from Catullus's "Carmen 101," an elegy to his brother.”

  The Washington Post: Five finalists for National Book Critics Circle award in poetry

• “It was through translating Catullus that I learned the little Latin I know, and through reading bad translations of Catullus that I first began to observe that a good translation of any text finesses a compromise between sense and literal meaning.”

  The Huffington Post: Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal

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