I, the PoetFirst person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the first person speaker in a variety of ways that either bolster or undermine the link between this figure and the poet himself. In I, the Poet, Kathleen McCarthy offers a new approach to understanding the ubiquitous use of a first person voice in Augustan age poetry, taking on several of the central debates in the field of Latin literary