Profile of Horace

by D.R. Shackleton Bailey

Book Overview

In this concise analysis, written with elegant wit, the greatest living textual critic of Latin authors offers new insight into the poetry of Horace.

Horace is best known for his four books of Odes, cherished for their lyric grace. His amiable persona is displayed more intimately in the moralizing verses of the Satires and Epistles. In a reading of all the poetry, but focusing especially on problematic areas, Shackleton...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674713257
• ISBN13: 9780674713253
• Release Date: August 1982
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"