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My Father On A Bicycle, Patricia Clark
Horace, Maecenas And Odes 2.17, Emily A. Mcdermott
Horace, Maecenas And Odes 2.17, Emily A. Mcdermott
Emily A. McDermott
Few of Horace's Odes have occasioned as little recent critical commentary as his poetic pledge to die along with Maecenas. Although a profitable direction for analysis was indicated by Meineke's outraged condemnation of the fourth stanza and PEERLKAMP'S even earlier obelization of a full five of the poem's eight stanzas, the road most commonly taken by critics has been to ignore this ode altogether, or to mention it in passing only. Of the most recent studies on Horace, only FRAENKEL and (necessarily) NISBET and HUBBARD'S exhaustive commentary on Odes II meet the poem head on. Critics' difficulties with the ode …
Greek And Roman Elements In Horace's Lyric Program, Emily A. Mcdermott
Greek And Roman Elements In Horace's Lyric Program, Emily A. Mcdermott
Emily A. McDermott
The vision of Horatian scholars into the nature of Horace's 'Odes' has for many years been obscured by a number of disputes concerning both his use of Greek literary models, classical and Alexandrian, and his poetic judgment of his Latin predecessors and contemporaries, the neoterics and elegists. It is ironic (though the eclectic Horace might well have found it amusing) that one of the first self-proclaimed literary critics of the Western tradition has left posterity in such doubt about where precisely he himself, as poet, fits into the trends and currents of literary history.