![]() ![]() ![]() From the first excruciating moments of infatuation with the woman he called “Lesbia,” through the torrid transports of physical love, to the betrayals that leave him stricken, Catullus told it all, and, in so doing, did more than anyone to create the form we recognize today as the love story. Poets treated the subject of “love,” allowing the flushed cheeks or alabaster limbs of this or that inamorata to enter the frame of their poems, but it was Catullus who built his nugae, or trifles, around a single, near-obsessional passion for a woman whose entire presence, body and mind, fills the lines of his poetry. To write about a personal love affair in an extended way. The Latin poet Catullus was the first poet in the ancient world THE BEAR CAME OVER THE MOUNTAIN Alice Munro WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE ![]() SOMETHING THAT NEEDS NOTHING Miranda July THE MOON IN ITS FLIGHT Gilbert Sorrentino SOME OTHER, BETTER OTTO Deborah Eisenberg THE LADY WITH THE LITTLE DOG Anton Chekhov Great Love Stories, from chekhov to munroįIRST LOVE AND OTHER SORROWS Harold Brodkey ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |