Horace

Standard Name: Horace

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Collier
Distinct from other contents of the book are complete texts by JC , transcribed and dated: a commentary on Horace ' Ars Poetica, November 1749; Sallys & Jennys Emblem (1754) concerning the Cry (discussed...
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
It is dedicated, in gratitude and affection, to W. Pett Ridge , who was known as a novelist of the London lower classes. It bears as epigraph an unascribed quotation from the Roman poet Horace
Textual Production Jane Brereton
JB published her first free-standing poem, as a Lady: The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace , Imitated: and apply'd to the King.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
78
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS published her Original Sonnets on Various Subjects and Odes paraphrased from Horace.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 26 (1799): 33
Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Each issue of To the Imitator was priced at sixpence. One appeared through a trade publisher, James Roberts , and one through a mercury, Anne Dodd . Both these were pamphlet-producers who offered...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
She also contributed an English version of an ode by Horace (ode fifteen of the first book) to The Works of Horace, in English Verse. By Several Hands, 1757, whose mastermind was William Duncombe .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
QEI made verse translations from Horace and Plutarch .
Elizabeth I, Queen. The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I. Editor Bradner, Leicester, Brown University Press.
46, 51
Textual Production Laetitia Pilkington
Her adult apprenticeship was less auspicious. Early in her marriage she antagonised her husband by outshining him when Swift set them to compete at translating odes by Horace . Shortly before her departure, alone, for...
Textual Production Alexander Pope
AP published The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace , Imitated, the first of his series of free imitations or updatings of the Roman poet Horace .
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Methuen; Yale University Press.
5: li
Textual Production Nina Hamnett
She dedicated it to Claude Mounsey , with one quotation from the Latin poet Horace and one from George Du Maurier 's Trilby.
Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate.
prelims
Advertising began in early August, calling the work a further...
Textual Production Alexander Pope
AP continued his series of Horatian imitations with The Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon.
344-5, 345n63
Textual Production Alexander Pope
AP published anonymously a poem which is anything but sober, entitled Sober Advice from Horace.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Methuen; Yale University Press.
5: li
Textual Production Alexander Pope
They first appeared as One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. A Dialogue Something like Horace and One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. Dialogue II.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Methuen; Yale University Press.
4: 296, 312
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
This seems to be the first of four poems which her daughter preserved, dating from this year and shortly afterwards. The others are versions of odes by Anacreon and Horace , and a dream vision...
Textual Features Clara Reeve
CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...

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18 June 1744

John Newbery advertised his Little Pretty Pocket Book, one of the first books aimed at delighting children while instructing them.

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