The Satires of Horace
4/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. Not as frequently translated as his Odes, in recent decades the Satires have been rendered into prose or bland verse.
Horace continues to influence modern lyric poetry, and our greatest poets continue to translate and marvel at his command of formal style, his economy of expression, his variety, and his mature humanism. Horace's comic genius has also had a profound influence on the Western literary tradition through such authors as Swift, Pope, and Boileau, but interest in the Satires has dwindled due to the difficulty of capturing Horace's wit and formality with the techniques of contemporary free verse.
A. M. Juster's striking new translation relies on the tools and spirit of the English light verse tradition while taking care to render the original text as accurately as possible.
Related to The Satires of Horace
Related ebooks
The Satires of Horace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHomer: The Poetry of the Past Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Sonnets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interpretations in Shakespeare's Sonnets: Perspectives in Criticism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5World Classics Library: Homer: The Iliad and The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lovers Assistant; Or, New Art of Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe English Poetic Mind: An Essay Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Chances of Rhyme: Device and Modernity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClassic Writings on Poetry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of English Poetry (1708) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOdes and Epodes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Canterbury Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Iliad of Homer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Bit of This and a Bit of That About Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFaust: Part One & Two: The Tragic Tale of an Over-Ambitious Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoetry at Present Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Praise of Folly: A Rhymed English Verse Version of the Original Latin Prose Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Odyssey (MAXNotes Literature Guides) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsParrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWorks of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns: Including Theogony and Works and Days Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Homeric Hymns: A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fasti, Tristia, Pontiac Epistles, and Ibis (Prose) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Poetry For You
Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Things We Don't Talk About Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of John Keats (with an Introduction by Robert Bridges) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enough Rope: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dream Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Better Be Lightning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Waste Land and Other Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Satires of Horace
9 ratings0 reviews