"Cool rare air": Zukofsky's Breathing with Catullus and Plautus.(Critical Essay) From: Chicago Review | Date: December 22, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 University of Chicago. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The complete Catullus he made in collaboration with Celia Zukofsky and "A"-21, his version of Plautus's Rudens, together comprise all the major-length poetic translating Louis Zukofsky ever did. Nearly half a century hence, these two "transliterations"--his term--from the Latin still enjoy the status of a problem, and not just because they were made by a poet with no particular claim to mastery of the Latin language. They still raise questions and hackles. In this they differ from, say, Pound's Propertius, a twentieth-century poet's classical translation respected now even by ...

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