Reviews for Catullus

The average rating for Catullus based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-10-12 00:00:00 Larry Stucki Helps to have read a "normal" translation perhaps, because it actually makes no sense. But it is a brilliant not making sense. I liked the idea of knowing the original somewhat as a sort of palimpsest.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-12-26 00:00:00 David Wilkins Zukofsky tries to preserve both the sound and sense of the original Latin. He fails. My copy had a madman's scrawls in it -- bescrawled is the best way to read these poems.