Horace Poetry Foundation
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Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) was a Roman poet, satirist, and critic. Born in Venusia in southeast Italy in 65 BCE to an Italian freedman and landowner, he was sent to Rome for schooling and was later in Athens studying philosophy when Caesar was assassinated. Horace joined Brutus’s army and later claimed to have thrown away his shield in his panic to escape. Returning to Rome, Horace began his career as a scribe, employment that gave him time to write. He befriended poets and important figures of his day such as Virgil and the Emperor Augustus, and he eventually achieved great renown. Horace is known for detailed self-portraits in genres such as epodes, satires and epistles, and lyrics. By offering a poetic persona who speaks to so many human concerns, Horace has encouraged each reader to feel that he or she is one of the poet’s circle, a friend in whom
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On the Translation of the Classics into English…
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The New Hope by Horace Gregory
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Priapus by Horace, Poetry Magazine
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Lyra Vernalis by Arthur Johnson
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King Log, by Geoffrey Hill by Robin Skelton, …
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Horatian Virtue by Anthony Hecht
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The Triumph over Life by John Gould Fletcher, The…
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Yeats Revisited by Horace Gregory
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JSTOR Detail Poetry Magazine
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After Horace by Carolyn Kizer
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The Sailor by Horace Gregory
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A Dawn in Britain I by Morton Dauwen Zabel, Horace…
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Europa by James Merrill
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Playing the Inventions by Howard Nemerov