A Cockney Catullus : the reception of Catullus in Romantic Britain, 1795-1821 /

"Catullus, one the most Hellenizing, scandalous, and emotionally expressive of the Roman poets, burst onto the British cultural scene during the Romantic era. It was not until this socially, politically, and culturally explosive epoch, with its mania for all things Greek, that Catullus' wo...

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