In my reading, I often come across an epigraph from the Roman poet, essayist, satirist, and critic Horace – always wise, appropriate, and slightly skeptical because Horace looked at life realistically ...

Swift Faunus, the god, will quite often exchange Arcady for my sweet Mount Lucretilis, and while he stays he protects my goats from the midday heat and the driving rain. The wandering wives of the ...

Apparently poets, if they are male, should be soft and soulful and wear their hair long. At least that is the way the Cincinnati Post on two occasions, a decade apart, described poets, if only to ...

— The stanchest lover of Horace would perhaps be the most prompt to declare that he is essentially untranslatable. Indeed, as to the favorite poet of each of us, we are quite sure to feel, above all ...

THERE has been in the last year a great revival of interest in Horace, — if one can speak of reviving what has never died or even slept. When Augustus Cæsar, in the year 17 B. C., called the whole ...

The Journal of Roman Studies publishes papers in the full range of the field which the Roman Society was established to promote, i.e. 'the study of the history, archaeology, literature and art of ...

Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, No. 72, New Approaches to Horace's Ars poetica (2014), pp. 193-205 (13 pages) ...

Horace Mungin, a Hollywood native and Givhans resident who wrote many short books about life in America, especially aspects of the African American experience, died Saturday. He was 80. His friend ...

A HISTORY OF AMERICAN POETRY, 1900—1940 (524 pp.)—Horace Gregory and Marya Zaturenska—Harcourf, Brace ($4). Poetry’s modern apologists have cried up modern poetry as such a dark art that many an ...