Artistic defects of the work 376 " arising from the nature of the subject 377 " from inequality in its execution 378 Intensity of feeling pervading the argument 380 Cumulative force in his rhythm 381 Qualities of his style 382 Freshness and sincerity of expression 383 Imaginative suggestiveness and creativeness 385 Use of analogies 387 Pictorial power 389 Poetical interpretation of Nature 390 Energy of movement in his descriptions 391 Poetic aspect of Nature influenced by his philosophy 393 Poetical interpretation of life 395 Modern interest of the poem 397 CHAPTER XV. CATULLUS. Contrast to the poetry of Lucretius 399 The poetry of youth 400 Accidental preservation of his poems 401 Principle of their arrangement 402 Vivid personal revelation afforded by them 404 Uncertainty as to the date of his birth 405 Birth-place and social standing 408 Influences of his native district 410 Identity of Lesbia and Clodia 412 Poems written between 61 and 57 B.C. 414 Poems connected with his Bithynian journey 418 Poems written between 56 and 54 B.C. 421 Character of his poems, founded on the passion of love 424 " " " on friendship and affection 426 His short satirical pieces 430 Other poems expressive of personal feeling 437 Qualities of style in these poems 438 " of rhythm 439 " of form 440 The Hymn to Diana 441 His longer and more purely artistic pieces 442 His Epithalamia 443 His Attis 447 The Peleus and Thetis 448 The longer elegiac poems 455 Rank of Catullus among the poets of the world 457