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Horace - Poems (Hardcover)
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Horace - Poems (Hardcover)
Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
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List price R289
Loot Price R263
Discovery Miles 2 630
You Save R26 (9%)
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Horace saw the death of the 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 continued
to be posthumously, for his odes and epodes, his satires and
epistles, and for Ars Poetica. His lyric poems have been translated
into many languages, by an array of famous poets including Jonson,
Milton, Dryden, Pope, Cowper, A. E. Houseman, Ezra Pound, Louis
McNeice, Robert Lowell--and even Queen Elizabeth I and the
Victorian prime minister Gladstone. Also included are excerpts from
Ars poetica (The Art of Poetry), an influential work of literary
criticism, and the Carmen saeculare (Secular Hymn), a prayer to
Apollo commissioned by Augustus for public performance. Horace's
injunction to "seize the day" has echoed through the ages. This
anthology of superb English translations will show how Horace has
permeated English literature for five centuries.
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