I, the Poet : First-Person Form in Horace, Catullus, and Propertius / Kathleen McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Kathy, Author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Latin poetry.

First person narrative.

Self in literature.

Horace--Criticism and interpretation.

Horace.

Catullus, Gaius Valerius--Criticism and interpretation.

Catullus, Gaius Valerius.

Propertius, Sextus--Criticism and interpretation.

Propertius, Sextus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

First-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the first-person speaker in a variety of ways that either bolster or undermine the link between this figure and the poet himself. In I, the Poet, Kathleen McCarthy offers a new approach to understanding the ubiquitous use of a first-person voice in Augustan-age poetry, taking on several of the central debates in the field of Latin literary studies-including the inheritance of the Greek tradition, the shift from oral performance to written collections, and the status of the poetic "I-voice."In light of her own experience as a twenty-first century reader, for whom Latin poetry is meaningful across a great gulf of linguistic, cultural, and historical distances, McCarthy positions these poets as the self-conscious readers of and heirs to a long tradition of Greek poetry, which prompted them to explore radical forms of communication through the poetic form. Informed in part by the "New Lyric Studies," I, the Poet will appeal not only to scholars of Latin literature but to readers across a range of literary studies who seek to understand the Roman contexts which shaped canonical poetic genres.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Voices on the Page

Speaker and Poet

Performance and Text

Overview of I, the Poet

1. Poetry as Conversation

2. Poetry as Performance

3. Poetry That Says "Ego"

4. Poetry as Writing

Epilogue: Ovid in Exile

Works Cited

General Index

Index Locorum

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9781501739569

1501739565

OCLC:

1090696109