Satirae
About this book
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. -- Publisher description.
Subjects
- ancient aesthetics
- biography
- criticism and interpretation
- early works to 1800
- english literature
- epic poetry, history and criticism
- horace
- latin didactic poetry
- latin epistolary poetry
- latin language
- latin language materials
- latin literature
- latin poetry
- latin poetry, translations into english
- latin satire
- latin verse satire
- mexico. secretaría de relaciones exteriores
- officials and employees
- perseus (greek mythology)
- poetics
- poetry
- poetry (poetic works by one author)
- readers
- rome, in literature
- satire
- satire, latin
- translations from latin
- translations into catalan
- translations into english
- translations into german
- translations into italian
- translations into latin
- translations into russian
- verse satire, latin