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Title: Elusive Catullus
Review: Given how little we know about Catullus, it is amazing that Burl has yet managed to produce a book-length study about the famous Roman poet. More the fool I for purchasing the book and expecting to find out something, anything new about Catullus. What I found instead was a hodgepodge of well-established facts and well-known gossip about virtually anyone who may have known or been influenced by Catullus. There's little new here, and Burl's undistinguished style does nothing to redeem that little. Not even the translations are new, having been first published in 1985.
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