Description: Among the most cherished love poems ever written, Catullus's brilliant, everlasting verses are collected here in a marvelous mix of English translations.
Brief description: Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic. His poems--116 in total survive--have been admired by and used as a reference point for countless other writers and artists, including Petrarch, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Cy Twombly, and Anne Carson.
Review Quotes: Catullus wrote the loveliest of lovely things--and also the loathesomest.--Robert Frost