Odes

Odes PDF Author: Horace
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Category : Latin poetry
Languages : la
Pages : 90

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Odes

Odes PDF Author: Horace
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Category : Latin poetry
Languages : la
Pages : 90

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Carmina...

Carmina... PDF Author: Horace
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781314807882
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 426

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Satires and epistles

Satires and epistles PDF Author: Horace
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Horace and Me

Horace and Me PDF Author: Harry Eyres
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408818248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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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.

The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace

The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace PDF Author: Horace
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140088411X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later. Horace shares with Italians of today a distinctive delight in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing the moment, and a view of religion as aesthetic experience rather than mystical exaltation--in many ways, as Alexander puts it, Horace is the quintessential Italian. The voice we hear in this graceful and carefully annotated translation is thus one that emerges with clarity and dignity from the heart of an unchanging Latin culture. Alexander is an accomplished poet, novelist, biographer, and translator who has lived in Italy for more than thirty years. Translating a poet of such variety and vitality as Horace calls on all his literary abilities. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 bce), was born the son of a freed slave in southern rural Italy and rose to become one of the most celebrated poets in Rome and a confidante of the most powerful figures of the age, including Augustus Caesar. His poetry ranges over politics, the arts, religion, nature, philosophy, and love, reflecting both his intimacy with the high affairs of the Roman Empire and his love of a simple life in the Italian countryside. Alexander translates the diverse poems of the youthful Satires and the more mature Odes with freshness, accuracy, and charm, avoiding affectations of archaism or modernism. He responds to the challenge of rendering the complexities of Latin verse in English with literary sensitivity and a fine ear for the subtleties of poetic rhythm in both languages. This is a major translation of one of the greatest of classical poets by an acknowledged master of his craft.

Ars Poetica

Ars Poetica PDF Author: Clay Reynolds
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618249398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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A satire on modern life as seen through the eyes of a poetic (and extremely insightful) curmudgeon. Spur Award winning author Clay Reynolds explores the life of a modern-day Don Juan, a hedonistically ambitious poetaster of our own times, a self-styled Lothario, but, as the tragicomedy ultimately reveals, a man who ultimately discovers that he has more in common with Coleridges mariner than with any swashbuckling versifier of old. With an all-new introduction to the Baen Ebook Edition. Clay Reynolds is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award. ". . .a satire with many layers. . .Darkly comic and compelling fiction."¾Booklist At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "Ambitious and absorbing."¾Larry McMurtry "Ingenious . . . Leaves readers gasping and eager for more."¾Stephen King

The Epodes of Horace; Tr. Into English Verse

The Epodes of Horace; Tr. Into English Verse PDF Author: Horace
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Horace

Horace PDF Author: R. O. A. M. Lyne
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300063226
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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This fascinating study of one of the greatest poets of the Augustan Age sheds new light on Horace's works by the way it combines literary analysis with investigation into the poet's social and political circumstances. Lyne's personal and historical approach focuses on the poet's relations with his patron Maecenas, with the Emperor Augustus, and with other grandees. Closely analyzing poems from Satires, Odes, and Epistles, Lyne reveals not only the magnificence of Horace's public literature, but the private man behind it. He shows how Horace neatly balanced deference with the careful assertion of his own social and political standing. According to Lyne, Horace was a master of private insinuation, as well as a skilled maker of public poetry. He was also a master in the art of ordering his works: exactly where a poem occurs is often of the subtlest importance. Lyne also examines the resumption of the great political lyric in the Odes of Book 4 (set aside in 23 B.C.), and contends that, beneath the public face, Horace here exhibited resentment, recording views that undermined earlier patriotic statements.

Horace: Odes Book II

Horace: Odes Book II PDF Author: Horace
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107012910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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The first substantial commentary for a generation on this book of Horace's Odes, a great masterpiece of classical Latin literature.

Perceptions of Horace

Perceptions of Horace PDF Author: L. B. T. Houghton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521765084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Throughout his work, the Roman poet Horace displays many, sometimes conflicting, faces: these include dutiful son, expert lover, gentleman farmer, man about town, outsider, poet laureate, sharp satirist and measured moraliser. This book features a wide array of essays by an international team of scholars from a number of different academic disciplines, each one shedding new light on aspects of Horace's poetry and its later reception in literature, art and scholarship from antiquity to the present day. In particular, the collection seeks to investigate the fortunes of 'Horace' both as a literary personality and as a uniquely varied textual corpus of enormous importance to western culture. The poems shape an author to suit his poetic aims; readers reshape that author to suit their own aesthetic, social and political needs. Studying these various versions of Horace and their interaction illuminates the author, his poetry and his readers.