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Woodman, Tony & Denis Feeney (Eds. )

TRADITIONS AND CONTEXTS IN THE POETRY OF HORACE Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Year of publication
2002
Author
Woodman, Tony & Denis Feeney (Eds. )
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Keyword
Poetry & Poets Latin Literature Horace Literary Criticism
Cover description
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 0521642469

Description

Light pencilling to a few pages (margins). Lower corners bumped. Minor shelfwear. DJ has creasing along upper edge with some rubbing. ; This book is a collection of freshly commissioned essays which covers the whole range of the output of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet. The essays introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry. All of the essays show close attention to the actual text of Horace, while placing that analysis in a number of different contexts - political, philosophical, historical. The collection sheds light not only on Horace but on the problems of Augustan poetry in general. ; 282 pages