Day 5: Catullus the Complete Poems translated by Guy Lee
Catullus made me love Latin poetry, more specifically Latin love poetry. His poetry influenced my entire twenties I reckon in terms of education and then early career path.
I have to respect someone that can write incredibly beautiful and thoughtful poems as well as incredibly effective invective poems.
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bailedThis is a novel masquerading as a history book. It tries so hard to figure out what Catullus was thinking and feeling, but in the driest possible way. I'd read a novelisation of Catullus' life, on the evidence here; I'd definitely read literary criticism of his work. But this isn't quite either of those -- but nor is it rigorous history.
I am half thinking of dropping this. It feels like... like the author wanted to novelise Catullus' life, but couldn't make it interesting enough.
pickFinally finished!
I enjoyed this collection of Roman poetry, it's not the usual epic poetry I'm more familiar with. An excellent collection.
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It has been a very long time since I last read outside of a readathon, so I thought I would do some light reading to get back into it.
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Good morning! It‘s still raining here so unfortunately our Sherwood Forest picnic has had to be cancelled. Boo! If I‘m lucky we‘ll still be able to go out for coffee. Luckily it‘s still hot and sunny at the coast! Two more sleeps! We‘re very excited!
How is your Monday looking? #bookworm #bookstamums #bookaddict #booklover #bookish #catullus
