Neoteric

<h2 id="neoterics">Neoterics</h2>
<p>Influenced by the Greek Hellenistic poets, the Neoterics rejected traditional social and literary norms. Their poetry is characterized by tight construction, a playful use of <a href="/facts/Genre/ow1Po53X">genre</a>, <a href="/facts/Pun/97K1L3yE">punning</a>, and complex <a href="/facts/Allusion/a3Qq3Ibo">allusions</a>. The most significant surviving Neoteric works are those of <a href="/facts/Catullus/7TAdBeqh">Catullus</a>. His poetry exemplifies the elegant vocabulary, meter, and sound – all of which the Neoterics sought – while balancing those elements with the equally important allusive characteristic of the Neoteric style.
</p><p>Latin poets normally classified as Neoterics are Catullus and his fellow poets, such as <a href="/facts/Helvius_Cinna/E5JEsoJD">Helvius Cinna</a>, <a href="/facts/Publius_Valerius_Cato/nAhRRkUD">Publius Valerius Cato</a>, <a href="/facts/Marcus_Furius_Bibaculus/GAr3rvRV">Marcus Furius Bibaculus</a>, <a href="/facts/Quintus_Cornificius/bEIIxaAH">Quintus Cornificius</a>, among others. Some Neoteric stylistic features can also be seen in the works of <a href="/facts/Vergil/K9zjwwHS">Vergil</a>, who was a generation younger than the <i><i>poetae novi</i></i>. The Neoterics were occasionally the subject of scorn from older and more traditionally minded Romans, such as <a href="/facts/Cicero/A37U7jaN">Cicero</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Prosody_(Latin)/H1CQr7Pd">Prosody (Latin)</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>

<ul><li>Castorina, Emanuele (1968). <i>Questioni neoteriche</i>. Biblioteca di cultura (in Italian). Vol. 79. Florence: La Nuova Italia.</li>
<li>Clausen, Wendell (1964). <a href="https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/11871">"Callimachus and Latin Poetry"</a>. <i>Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies</i>. 5 (3): 181–196.</li>
<li>Granarolo, Jean (1973). "L'époque néotérique ou la poésie romaine d'avant-garde au dernier siècle de la République (Catulle excepté)". In Temporini, Hildegard (ed.). <i>Von den Anfängen Roms bis zum Ausgang der Republik: Sprache und Literatur (1. Jahrhundert v. Chr.)</i>. Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (in French). Vol. I.3. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 278–360. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515%2F9783110836424-009">10.1515/9783110836424-009</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 3-11-004251-7.</li>
<li>Lyne, R. O. A. M. (1978). "The Neoteric Poets". <i>The Classical Quarterly</i>. 28 (1): 167–187. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0009838800037848">10.1017/S0009838800037848</a>.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Charles Martin (1992). Ian Morgan (ed.). Catullus. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300052008. <a href="9780300052008" target="_blank">9780300052008</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Frank O. Copley (1957). Catullus—The Complete Poetry. The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472060856. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) <a href="9780472060856" target="_blank">9780472060856</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>David Wray (2007). Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521030694. <a href="9780521030694" target="_blank">9780521030694</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition. Translated by Peter Green. University of California Press. 2005. ISBN 9780520242647. <a href="9780520242647" target="_blank">9780520242647</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Maurice Balme; James Morwood (1997). Oxford Latin Reader. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199122334. <a href="0199122334" target="_blank">0199122334</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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