Research Catalog

Title

The odes of Horace : a critical study / by Steele Commager ; foreword by David Armstrong.

Author

Commager, Steele.

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

xvi, 365 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Art and literature > Rome
• Horace
• Nature in literature
• Odes > History and criticism
• Political poetry, Latin > History and criticism
• Rome > In literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1962. With new foreword.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / David Armstrong -- I. Literary Conventions and Stylistic Criticism in the Augustan Age. The Descent of the Muses. Horace's Use of Traditional Formulas. Ars and Ingenium. Horace and Alexandrianism. Horace's Stylistic Criticism -- II. Structural Characteristics of the Odes. Patterns of Words. Architectural Patterns and the Use of Metaphor. The Cleopatra Ode -- III. Qualities of Imagination. Balance of Attitude. Tension between Form and Subject: Parody. The Amatory Odes -- IV. The Political Odes. Early Work. Longer Odes of the Early Twenties. Later Odes -- V. The World of Nature: Time and Change. Nature as a Moral Metaphor. The Ethics of Change. Nature's Decorum and Death. Book Four -- VI. The World of Art -- Register of Citations from Horace.

ISBN

0806127295 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^94039638^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library