L. B. T. Houghton / Maria Wyke (ed.)

Perceptions of Horace

A Roman Poet and His Readers
Herausgeber: Houghton, L. B. T.; Wyke, Maria

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the work of Horace and the ways his poetry has been read from classical antiquity to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9780521765084
• ISBN-10: 0521765080
• Artikelnr.: 28111663

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a Roman poet and his readers L. B. T. Houghton and Maria Wyke
1. Becoming an authority: Horace on his own reception Denis Feeney
2. The ends of the beginning: Horace, Satires 1 Emily Gowers
3. Horace's Bacchic poetics Alessandro Schiesaro
4. Horace: critics, canons and canonicity J. S. C. Eidinow
5. Laying down the law: Horace's reflection in his sententiae Martin Dinter
6. Social status and the authorial personae of Horace and Vitruvius Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
7. Writing to the emperor: Horace's presence in Ovid's Tristia 2 Jennifer Ingleheart
8. Horace, Suetonius, and the Lives of the Greek poets Barbara Graziosi
9. Two letters to Horace: Petrarch and Andrew Lang L. B. T. Houghton
10. Horace and learned ladies Jane Stevenson
11. Vivere secundum Horatium: Otto Vaenius' Emblemata Horatiana Roland Mayer
12. The poet's voice: allusive dialogue in Ben Jonson's Horatian poetry V. A. Moul
13. Theme and variation: Horace in Pope's correspondence Niall Rudd
14. Appropriating Horace in eighteenth-century France Russell Goulbourne
15. Horace and eighteenth-century commentary Penelope Wilson
16. Horace and the Victorians Stephen Harrison
17. A late flowering of English Alcaics John Talbot.