Daisy Dunn

Catullus' Bedspread

The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet

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Produktbeschreibung

Born to one of Verona’s leading families, Catullus spent most of his young adulthood in Rome, mingling with the likes of Caesar and Cicero, and chronicling his life through poetry. Famed for having a lyrical and subversive voice, his poems about friends were jocular and often obscenely funny; those who crossed him found themselves skewered in raunchy verse, sudden objects of hilarity and ridicule. These bawdy poems were disseminated widely throughout Rome. Many of his poems recall his secret affair with the seductive Clodia, an older woman who would eventually be plunged into scandal following the suspicious death of her aristocratic husband. While Catullus and Clodia made love in the shadows, the whole of Italy was quaking as Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus forged a doomed alliance for power. During these tumultuous years, Catullus turned to darker subject matter, finally composing his greatest work of all: the “bedspread poem,” which set themes of love and war against the backdrop of the myth of the Ages, which would achieve immortality and make Catullus a legend.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 135mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 269g
• ISBN-13: 9780062317032
• ISBN-10: 0062317032
• Artikelnr.: 46764358

Autorenporträt

Daisy Dunn studied classics at the University of Oxford, earned a master’s degree in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and completed a doctorate in classics and art history at University College London. She writes for the Daily Telegraph, Newsweek, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and History Today. She lives in London, England.

Rezensionen

'An amazing mixture of pacey biography and first rate literary analysis. Rome's most famous bad boy poet comes alive as never before. Stunning' Boris Johnson

'A haunting reminder of how little humanity has changed over two thousand years and a moving introduction to the greatest love poet of all time' Robert Harris

'Dunn's beautifully written biography is a superb portrait of this most human of poets who leaps to life, hating and loving as ferociously as ever, before our 21st-century eyes' Sunday Times

'Dunn does a brilliant job of recreating Rome in the first century BC ... This is a triumph of modern classical scholarship made accessible through lucid writing' Independent

'Lyrical, playful and startlingly original ... Breathes extraordinary new life into the classical world. An unforgettable journey into the high art and low life of ancient Rome' Dan Jones

'Simultaneously imaginative and learned, Dunn has written the perfect introduction to Catullus and his world' Tom Holland

'Dunn's brilliant new biography of the Roman master will shine beams of light on his darkly passionate poetry' Professor Paul Cartledge

'Dunn succeeds through a confection of history, literary criticism and imaginative travelogue. She is an appreciative and observant guide, pointing to continuities in the landscape and teasing out ancient allusions ... Dunn's prose is Catullan in its versatility: she can be deliciously coarse and ... lyrical. She marshals the poems into a life story ... Like a good music album ... An imaginative, enriching and quick-witted book reminds us that Catullus is a poet for all time' Standpoint

'Imaginatively revive[s] this most accessible of Roman poets' Financial Times

'Enjoyable and diligently researched ... Dunn is as a sure-footed and elegant literary critic ... 'Catullus' Bedspread' is richly woven, and Dunn's deep passion for her subject is patent' Spectator