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Horace - Beyond the Public Poetry (Paperback)
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This fascinating study of one of the greatest poets of the Augustan
age sheds new light on Horace's works, combining literary analysis
with an investigation into the poet's social and political
circumstances. Lyne focuses on the poet's relations with his patron
Maecenas, with the Emperor Augustus and with other grandees.
Describing his background, the book considers how and why Horace
came to rely on patronage, and looks at the nature of that
patronage. It identifies the point at which Horace adopted the role
of political poet and shows how he evolved a public poetry for his
particular society. Horace was a master of personal insinuation, as
well as a fine maker of public poetry. Lyne reveals him a master,
too, in the art of ordering his works, positioning his poems with
skill and subtlety. Looking closely at poems from the 'Satires',
'Odes' and 'Epistles', Lyne demonstrates how Horace neatly balanced
deference to the great with careful assertion of his own social and
political standing. He finds instances where Horace teases his
original recipients - and his wider audience. He investigates why
the poet set aside his great political lyric in 23 B.C. and resumed
it in 17 B.C..Examining Odes in Book 4, Lyne contends that behind
the public face, Horace exhibits resentment, recording views that
undermine earlier patriotic statements. Horace's political
utterances are always interesting, invariably well-composed, often
independent. His is the public voice of Augustan society, and his
literature reflects the pressures and nuances of that society, as
well as revealing an image of the poet himself. R.O.A.M. Lyne was
Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. Among his
books are 'Ciris: A Poem Attributed to Vergil' (1978), 'The Latin
Love Poets, from Catullus to Horace' (1980), 'Further Voices in
Vergil's Aeneid' (1987), 'Words and the Poet: Characteristic
Techniques of Style in Vergil's Aeneid' (1989).
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