Richard Tarrant

Horace's Odes

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Produktbeschreibung

Horace's Odes are one of the greatest achievements of Latin literature. Richard Tarrant situates the Odes in the context of Horace's poetic career and defines their relationship to earlier literature. A number of poems are analyzed in detail, illustrating Horace's range of subject matter and his characteristic techniques of form and structure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 137mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780195156768
• ISBN-10: 0195156765
• Artikelnr.: 40478613

Autorenporträt

Richard Tarrant is Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading the Odes Today
1. Horace's Life
2. Before the Odes
3. To the Cool Grove: The Ascent to Lyric
4. Odes 1-3: The Collection
5. Three Odes
6. Friendship and Advice
7. Amatory Poems
8. Political Poems
9. After the Odes I: The Book of Epistles
10. Lyric Revisited: The Carmen saeculare and the Fourth Book of Odes
11. After the Odes II: The Literary Epistles
12. Reception of the Odes: From Propertius to Seamus Heaney
Further Reading
Works Cited
Indexes