Horace's Satires and Epistles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393090932)

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).

Author: Quintus Horace Flaccus
ISBN-10: 0393090930
ISBN-13: 9780393090932
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1977
Pages: 122
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.11w x 0.35d