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Horace

Jacques Perret

出版	New York University Press, 1964
主題	Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
ISBN	08147033809780814703380
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=e0OQAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This book is an extraordinary poet in an extraordinary age -the age of Octavius Augustus, in which Quintus Horatius Flaccus, son of a former slave, created and refined an art that is still admired and imitated. The story of Horace the man- his parentage, his education, his friendship with Vergil and Maecenas, and his retreat at the famous Sabine farm- is here interwoven with a close and careful study of the poems. Examining the development of Horace's style and his ideas on poetry, Jacques Perret describes, too, the critical and theoretical tradition in which Horace had come to take his place and the diversity of influences to which he had exposed himself. In an especially persuasive chapter, Professor Perret develops the case for reading the Epistle to the Pisos not as an Art of Poetry but, rather, as an Art of Dramatic Writing. Such a view, he suggests, accounts for the seeming omissions, disproportions, and irrelevancies in the Epistle and reveals it to be, in fact, a work of great richness and variety. An extensive critical bibliography completes this lively study of Horace the man, the poet, and the social critic.