Author: HoracePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Satires and epistles
Author: HoracePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Complete Odes and Epodes
Author: HoracePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192839428
Category : Laudatory poetry, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A collection of lyric poetry by the Roman poet Horace.
A Commentary on Horace: Odes Book III
Author: R. G. M. NisbetPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199288748
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a successor to the commentaries by Nisbet and Hubbard on Odes I and II, but it takes critical note of the abundant recent writing on Horace. It starts from the precise interpretation of the Latin; attention is paid to the nuances implied by the word-order; parallel passages arequoted, not to depreciate the poet's originality but to elucidate his meaning and to show how he adapted his predecessors; sometimes major English poets are cited to exemplify his influence on the tradition.In expounding the so-called Roman Odes the editors reject not only uncritical acceptance of Augustan ideology but also more recent attempts to find subversion in a court-poet. They show how Greek moralizing, particularly by the Epicureans, is applied to contemporary social situations. Poems oncountry festivals are treated sympathetically in the belief that the tolerant and inclusive religion of the Romans can easily be misunderstood. The poet's wit is emphasized in his addresses both to eminent Romans and to women with Greek names; the latter poems are taken as reflecting his generalexperience rather than particular occasions. Though Horace's ironic self-presentation must not be understood too literally, the editors reject the modern tendency to treat the author as unknowable.Although the text of the Odes is not printed separately, the headings to the notes provide a continuous text. The editors put forward a number of conjectures, most of them necessarily tentative, and in the few cases where they disagree, both opinions are summarized.
Ovid: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Llewelyn MorganPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192574671
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for eternity, but no poet of the Greco-Roman world has had a deeper or more lasting impact on subsequent literature and art than he can claim. In the present day no Greek or Roman poet is as accessible, to artists, writers, or the general reader: Ovid's voice remains a compellingly contemporary one, as modern as it seemed to his contemporaries in Augustan Rome. But Ovid was also a man of his time, his own story fatally entwined with that of the first emperor Augustus, and the poetry he wrote channels in its own way the cultural and political upheavals of the contemporary city, its public life, sexual mores, religion, and urban landscape, while also exploiting the superbly rich store of poetic convention that Greek literature and his Roman predecessors had bequeathed to him. This Very Short Introduction explains Ovid's background, social and literary, and introduces his poetry, on love, metamorphosis, Roman festivals, and his own exile, a restlessly innovative oeuvre driven by the irrepressible ingenium or wit for which he was famous. Llewelyn Morgan also explores Ovid's immense influence on later literature and art, spanning from Shakespeare to Bernini. Throughout, Ovid's poetry is revealed as enduringly scintillating, his personal story compelling, and the issues his life and poetry raise of continuing relevance and interest. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Horace's Odes
Author: Richard TarrantPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198035624
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Classical Literature
Author: William AllanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199665451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
William Allan's Very Short Introduction provides a concise and lively guide to the major authors, genres, and periods of classical literature. Drawing upon a wealth of material, he reveals just what makes the 'classics' such masterpieces and why they continue to influence and fascinate today.
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Catriona KellyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191577502
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book will uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare' as a recurring example as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after hime, whether poets or novelists. It will look at such questions as why Russian writers are venerated, how they've been interpreted inside Russia and beyond, and the influences of such things as the folk tale tradition, orthodox religion, and the West ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Horace: a Very Short Introduction
Author: Llewelyn MorganPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192849646
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
This book examines the career of the Roman poet Horace, one of the greatest writers in Roman literature. It introduces his poetry with illustrations from all his works, and contextualises his career in Greek and Roman literary tradition and within the tumultuous events of his life as civil war gave way to the reign of the first emperor Augustus.
French Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Author: John D. LyonsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199568723
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
A concise and lively introduction to the world of French literature.-publisher description.
The Castle of Otranto
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198704445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
After the death of his only son on his wedding day, Manfred, the Prince of Otranto, determines to marry the bride-to-be, setting himself on a course of destruction.