First-Person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature.
In I, the Poet , Kathleen McCarthy offers a new approach to understanding the ubiquitous use of a First-Person voice in Augustan-age poetry, taking on several of the central debates in the field of Latin literary studies--including the inheritance of the.
Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the First-Person speaker in a variety of ways that either bolster or undermine the link between this figure and the poet himself.
First-Person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature