Thom Gunn Bos Cupid. fresh York: F...

Thom Gunn Bos Cupid. fresh York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000

It is a hyperbolic clich[acute{e}] for reviewers to say: with this book X establishes himself as the Catullus of his age. to this time it would be tempting to make as it is a claim for Boss Cupid. Gunn's piece of poetrys often follow the manner of Roman elegists in speaking from within a dramatic context; equally, he subtly cultivates an array of personae in the way that close to one another--and to himself-that the same is disinclined to acknowledge their artifice (despite the craft in evidence). Who reads Catullus and disbelieves in Lesbia? Despite