Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Slow Fire
	World reception/world authors
	From Italy to North America and Back
	Who? What? When? And Why?
1 Mythical Rewritings
	Sappho and Catullus at the origins: Pascoli’s poetic laboratory (1877–84)
2 Modernist Rites
	Sappho and Catullus Imagistes
	Sappho and Catullus beyond Imagism
3 Classical Hermeticism
	Tradition and translation towards a lyric absolute
	Sappho as a lyric abstraction: Poetic voice in Lirici greci
	Quasimodo’s elegiac Catullus
	Lirici greci ’s reception
4 The Self and the Object
	Rewriting the self with Catullus: Lowell’s Life Studies
	Sappho through a prism
	Objectivist Catullus: The Zukofskys’ translations
5 Body vs Soul
	Ceronetti’s anti-establishment Catullus
	Copioli’s spiritual eroticism
6 Postmodern Sappho and Catullus
	Triangulating eros
	(Un)Knowing Sappho and Catullus: Men in the Off Hours (2000)
	Floating with Sappho
	Giving thanatos back to eros: Catullus in Nox (2010)
Epilogue
Notes
List of Manuscripts
Audio-visual Material
Works Cited
Index