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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: McCarthy, Kathleen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)

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 understa...

Table of 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