The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus

Gaius Valerius, 84? BCE-54 BCE and Richard Francis Burton Catullus

Rome's rawest poet met Victorian England's boldest translator. Sir Richard Burton, famed explorer and translator of the Arabian Nights, rendered the carmina of Catullus into English verse, matched line for line by a complete prose version with introduction and notes. Sparrow elegies, bitter Lesbia poems, gossip twenty centuries old. Passion has never sounded more alive.