Horace and Me

Horace and Me PDF Author: Harry Eyres
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408818248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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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.

Horace and Me

Horace and Me PDF Author: Harry Eyres
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408818248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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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.

Horace and Me

Horace and Me PDF Author: Harry Eyres
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374172749
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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A wise and witty revival of the Roman poet Horace, in which Eyres reexamines the poet's life, legacy and verse with a light, lyrical touch and a keen critical eye.

Horace: Satires Book I

Horace: Satires Book I PDF Author: Horace
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521452201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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Helps readers to translate and interpret Horace's first book of Satires in the light of recent scholarship.

Carmina

Carmina PDF Author: Horace
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781348226130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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the epistles of horace book I

the epistles of horace book I PDF Author: Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 176

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Horace Henway Brushes It Off

Horace Henway Brushes It Off PDF Author: Kathleen Arthur
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733351201
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Young Horace Henway promises to practice good dental hygiene after learning a lesson from his elderly neighbor, Mr. Hunt.

Horace Between Freedom and Slavery

Horace Between Freedom and Slavery PDF Author: Stephanie McCarter
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299305740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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During the Roman transition from Republic to Empire in the first century B.C.E., the poet Horace found his own public success in the era of Emperor Augustus at odds with his desire for greater independence. In Horace between Freedom and Slavery, Stephanie McCarter offers new insights into Horace's complex presentation of freedom in the first book of his Epistles and connects it to his most enduring and celebrated moral exhortation, the golden mean. She argues that, although Horace commences the Epistles with an uncompromising insistence on freedom, he ultimately adopts a middle course. She shows how Horace explores in the poems the application of moderate freedom first to philosophy, then to friendship, poetry, and place. Rather than rejecting philosophical masters, Horace draws freely on them without swearing permanent allegiance to any—a model for compromise that allows him to enjoy poetic renown and friendships with the city's elite while maintaining a private sphere of freedom. This moderation and adaptability, McCarter contends, become the chief ethical lessons that Horace learns for himself and teaches to others. She reads Horace's reconfiguration of freedom as a political response to the transformations of the new imperial age.

Horace & Bunwinkle

Horace & Bunwinkle PDF Author: PJ Gardner
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062946560
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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The first in a young middle grade animal series in which an anxious Boston Terrier and an exuberant potbellied pig team up to solve crimes in their barnyard—from debut author PJ Gardner, with illustrations by David Mottram. Perfect for fans of the Mercy Watson series, The Trouble with Chickens, and A Boy Called Bat. Horace Homer Higgins III despises dirt. And the outdoors. And ducks. But when his person, Ellie, moves to a farm called the Homestead, the anxious Boston Terrier is forced to adapt. As if that isn’t enough to strain his nerves, Ellie adopts a perpetually cheerful potbellied pig named Bunwinkle to be his baby sister. Bunwinkle is delighted to be on the farm despite the stuffiness of her new canine brother. She’s sure she’ll crack his shell eventually—no one can resist her cuteness for long—especially once they bond over watching a TV pet-tective show. When the duo discovers that some neighborhood animals have been disappearing, they decide to use their new detective skills to team up to solve this barnyard mystery. Is it a mountain lion? Or their suspiciously shot-loving veterinarians? Only one thing seems certain: if they don’t figure it out soon, one of them might be next.

Horace

Horace PDF Author: Horace
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1101907673
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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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.

I, the Poet

I, the Poet PDF Author: Kathleen McCarthy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501739565
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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First-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the first-person speaker in a variety of ways that either bolster or undermine the link between this figure and the poet himself. In I, the Poet, Kathleen McCarthy offers a new approach to understanding the ubiquitous use of a first-person voice in Augustan-age poetry, taking on several of the central debates in the field of Latin literary studies—including the inheritance of the Greek tradition, the shift from oral performance to written collections, and the status of the poetic "I-voice." In light of her own experience as a twenty-first century reader, for whom Latin poetry is meaningful across a great gulf of linguistic, cultural, and historical distances, McCarthy positions these poets as the self-conscious readers of and heirs to a long tradition of Greek poetry, which prompted them to explore radical forms of communication through the poetic form. Informed in part by the "New Lyric Studies," I, the Poet will appeal not only to scholars of Latin literature but to readers across a range of literary studies who seek to understand the Roman contexts which shaped canonical poetic genres.