{"product_id":"i-the-poet-first-person-form-in-horace-catullus-and-propertius-9781501739552","title":"I, the Poet: First-Person Form in Horace, Catullus, and Propertius","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kathleen McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient and Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature\u003c\/b\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eI, the Poet\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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,\" \u003ci\u003eI, the Poet\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46456847958167,"sku":"9781501739552","price":7518.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501739552.webp?v=1769179648","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/i-the-poet-first-person-form-in-horace-catullus-and-propertius-9781501739552","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}