Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record of a divided and fascinating self.

Read the whole Catullus—because the wholeness is the point.

2 In “Words for Hart Crane” Robert Lowell called Crane “Catullus redivivus” and “the Shelley of my age”; in a recentParis Reviewinterview he said: “I think Crane is the great poet of that generation … ...