Odes
Title | Odes PDF eBook |
Author | Horace |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 90 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Latin poetry |
ISBN |
The Works of Horace
Title | The Works of Horace PDF eBook |
Author | Horace |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 278 |
Release | 1770 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Horace: Odes Book II
Title | Horace: Odes Book II PDF eBook |
Author | Horace |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2017-04-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107012910 |
The first substantial commentary for a generation on this book of Horace's Odes, a great masterpiece of classical Latin literature.
Carmina
Title | Carmina PDF eBook |
Author | Horace |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 218 |
Release | 2015-12-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781348226130 |
Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace
Title | Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Woodman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2002-05-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139439316 |
This book explores the whole range of the output of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet, from the Epodes to the literary-critical Epistles. Distinguished scholars of diverse background and interests introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry. Close attention is paid throughout to the actual text of Horace, with many of the chapters focusing on reading a single poem. These close readings are then situated in a number of different political, philosophical and historical contexts. The book sheds light not only on Horace but on the general problems confronting Latinists in the study of Augustan poetry, and it will be of value to a wide range of upper-level Latin students and scholars.
Horace
Title | Horace PDF eBook |
Author | Horace |
Publisher | Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2016-01-05 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1101907673 |
This wide-ranging selection showcases the work of one of ancient Rome’s master poets—and originator of the phrase “carpe diem”—whose influence on poetry can be traced through the centuries into our own time. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, who lived from 65 to 8 BCE, saw the death of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire and was personally acquainted with the emperor Augustus and the poet Virgil. He was famous during his lifetime and since for his odes and epodes, for his satires and epistles, and for Ars Poetica. His lyric poems, brief and allusive, have been translated into English by a range of famous poets, including Milton, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, William Cowper, A. E. Housman, Ezra Pound, Louis MacNeice, Robert Lowell—and even Queen Elizabeth I and the Victorian prime minister William Gladstone. Horace’s masterly verses have inspired poets from antiquity to modernity, and his injunction to “seize the day” has echoed through the ages. This anthology of superb English translations shows how Horace has permeated English literature for five centuries.
Horace and Me
Title | Horace and Me PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Eyres |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 255 |
Release | 2013-07-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1408818248 |
A deeply personal story of one man's life-long obsession with an ancient poet, and an exploration of what Horace's thoughts on life, leisure and love can teach us today 'A moving memoir that shakes the dust off Horace – and restores him to his rightful berth among the immortals' Harry Mount, author of Amo, Amas, Amat... 'Delightful ... Its seductive interweaving of a modern life and an ancient one will encourage a wider readership of this most appealing of Latin writers, even if only in translation' Economist Horace lived at a pivotal moment. Rome was facing a profound crisis: though it ruled the world, the values which had made it great were disintegrating. As efficiency and pragmatism became watchwords, Horace championed the 'supremely useless' endeavour of poetry, and glorified friendship and wine. Horace and Me charts Harry Eyres' evolving relationship with the Latin poet to show how, in an era of affluence and excess which seems to be hurtling out of control, Horace can help us navigate our way in uncertain times.