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
Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica
Author: HoraceHorace: Satires and Epistles
Author: Kirk FreudenburgPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780199203543
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Horace's Satires and Epistles
Author: HoracePublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393044799
Category : Epistolary poetry, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Epistles of Horace Book I
Author: HoracePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107683742
Category : History
Languages : la
Pages : 161
Book Description
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.
The Satires and Epistles of Horace
Author: HoraceThe Satires and Epistles of Horace
Author: HoraceHorace: Satires Book II
Author: HoracePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100904026X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The satires explored in this volume are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome's trickiest poet. Horace was an ironist, sneaky smart, and prone to hiding things under the surface. His Latin is dense and difficult. The challenges posed by these satires are especially acute because their voices, messages, and stylistic habits are many, and their themes range from the poet's anxieties about the limits of satiric free speech in the first poem to the ridiculous excesses of an outrageously overdone dinner party in the last. For students working at intermediate and advanced levels of Latin, this book makes the satires of Horace's second book of Sermones readable by explaining difficult issues of grammar, syntax, word-choice, genre, period, and style. For scholars who already know these poems well, it offers fresh insights into what satire is, and how these poems communicate as uniquely 'Horatian' expressions of the genre.
Horace
Author: HoraceSatires and Epistles
Author: HoracePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191620157
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
'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.