tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post115894859856590486..comments2023-12-23T04:56:29.702-05:00Comments on Ferule & Fescue: Friday poetry blogging: that dirty CatullusFlaviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-63111490293770022202007-07-07T17:40:00.000-04:002007-07-07T17:40:00.000-04:00If you want to listen to Catullus read aloud in La...If you want to listen to Catullus read aloud in Latin, there is quite a good selection of his poetry available for download on the Latinum Podcast<BR/><BR/>http://latinum.mypodcast.comThe Bent Branchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16281010373396592381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-1158953992491845712006-09-22T15:39:00.000-04:002006-09-22T15:39:00.000-04:00I love Catullus! And I love the fact that modern ...I love Catullus! And I love the fact that modern translators are constantly trying to capture the "in the moment" casual feeling of C's writing with slang. Which ends up sounding dated 40 years after the translation . . . Catullus is best in Latin, of course, for the assonance and rhythm, but these translations are hilarioius! Have you seen Zukofsky's? It's more of a language poem than an actual translation . . .<BR/><BR/>Catullus came up in my class on Astrophil and Stella. A lot of my students (classics minors) felt that Catullus and not Petrarch, was the true precursor to the Renaissance sonnet sequence. Hence I've started looking into the Renaissance Catullan legacy. All this talk about Ovid and Horace and Tacitus and so little on Catullus. This has got to change!Pamphiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07709191371678901051noreply@blogger.com