493 Catullus - The Poet of Love and Hate
The History of Literature
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Lesbian Poems in a Book
We don't know whether Catullus had any hand in the ordering of the poems, or if not him, then who it was who put them together in this order. There are 113 or so poems, which are arranged into roughly three sections. They really need to be read back to back to get a sense of cantalouces, charisma as a poet. We think we know what that manuscript was, but we don't know much about that manuscript anyway.
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