Satires and epistles
Author | : Horace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Horace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Horace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : Horace |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Epistolary poetry, Latin |
ISBN | : 9780393044799 |
Horace is perhaps best remembered as the lyric poet of the Odes, and consequently as the inventor of the form named the Horatian Ode after him. But his achievement is more various than the Odes and Epodes suggest.
Author | : Horace |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107683742 |
Originally published in 1888, this book contains the Latin text of the first book of Horace's Epistulae. Distinguished classicist Shuckburgh includes a biography of the poet and commentaries on each of the 20 poems in the book, as well as a brief synopsis of each letter. This book will be of value to anyone interested in Horace or in Augustan poetry more generally.
Author | : Horace |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-04-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0191620157 |
'What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?' Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding time to reflect on how to write good satire and along the way revealing his own persona to be as flawed and bigoted as the people he attacks. Alongside famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse, the explosive fart of Priapus, and the grotesque dinner party given by the nouveau-riche Nasidienus, these poems are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, and Horace's pervasive humanity. They influenced not only Persius and Juvenal but the long tradition of English satire, from Ben Jonson to W. H. Auden. These new prose translations by John Davie perfectly capture the ribald style of the original. In the Epistles, Horace uses the form of letters to his friends, acquaintances, foremen, and even the emperor to explore questions of philosophy and how to live a good life; and in 'The Art of Poetry' (the Ars poetica), he gives advice on poetic style that informed the work of writers and dramatists for centuries. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author | : Horace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Latin poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kirk Freudenburg |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-05-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199203543 |
A collection of articles representing some of the finest writing on Horace's satires (Sermones) and epistles (Epistulae) over the past fifty years. Several have previously only been accessible in specialist journals, while five appear here for the first time in English translation.
Author | : Daniel Hooley |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470777087 |
This compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire examines the development of the genre, focusing particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire. It considers why it was important to the Romans and why it still matters. Provides a compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire. Focuses on the development and function of satire in literary and social contexts. Takes account of recent critical approaches. Keeps the uninitiated reader in mind, presuming no prior knowledge of the subject. Introduces each satirist in his own historical time and place – including the masters of Roman satire, Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Facilitates comparative and intertextual discussion of different satirists.
Author | : Stephanie McCarter |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2015-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299305740 |
During the Roman transition from Republic to Empire in the first century B.C.E., the poet Horace found his own public success in the era of Emperor Augustus at odds with his desire for greater independence. In Horace between Freedom and Slavery, Stephanie McCarter offers new insights into Horace's complex presentation of freedom in the first book of his Epistles and connects it to his most enduring and celebrated moral exhortation, the golden mean. She argues that, although Horace commences the Epistles with an uncompromising insistence on freedom, he ultimately adopts a middle course. She shows how Horace explores in the poems the application of moderate freedom first to philosophy, then to friendship, poetry, and place. Rather than rejecting philosophical masters, Horace draws freely on them without swearing permanent allegiance to any—a model for compromise that allows him to enjoy poetic renown and friendships with the city's elite while maintaining a private sphere of freedom. This moderation and adaptability, McCarter contends, become the chief ethical lessons that Horace learns for himself and teaches to others. She reads Horace's reconfiguration of freedom as a political response to the transformations of the new imperial age.