Horace's odes

Horace's odes / Richard Tarrant.

"Horace's body of lyric poetry, the Odes, is one of the greatest achievements of Latin literature and a foundational text for the Western poetic tradition. These 103 exquisitely crafted poems speak in a distinctive voice-usually detached, often ironic, always humane-, reflecting on the cha...

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Main Author: Tarrant, R. J. (Richard John), 1945- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Series:Oxford approaches to classical literature.
Subjects:
Horace. > Carmina.
Carmina (Horace)
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reading the Odes Today
  • Horace's Life
  • Before the Odes
  • To the Cool Grove: The Ascent to Lyric
  • Odes 1-3: The Collection
  • Three Odes
  • Friendship and Advice
  • Amatory Poems
  • Political Poems
  • After the Odes I: The Book of Epistles
  • Lyric Revisited: The Carmen saeculare and the Fourth Book of Odes
  • After the Odes II: The Literary Epistles
  • Reception of the Odes: From Propertius to Seamus Heaney.

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