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Satires and Epistles (Hardcover)
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Satires and Epistles (Hardcover)
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Early in his life, and again in maturity, Horace sought to turn his
poetic skills to the uses of moral and aesthetic discussion in the
series of didactic works translated here. In the Satires, Horace
adopts one persona after another, each of which reduces himself to
absurdity in the process of trying to argue a point of view about
the ethical or artistic life. The form of the Epistles permits
Horace to write with particular intimacy, addressing moral issues
in a persuasive yet informal way. The third epistle, The Art of
Poetry, on the other hand, is a formal poem addressed to the
emperor Augustus, and seeks to educate the poetic taste of the
ruler of the western world. Jacob Fuchs is Associate Professor of
English at California State University, Hayward. He is the editor
of Virgil: The Aeneid (Pengiun Classics, 1991), and author of
Reading Horace (Edinburgh UP, 1967), The Imagery and Poetry of
Lucretius (Edinburgh UP, 1969, reprint Bristol CP, 1994).
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