Horace

Original poems (sonnets, songs, ballads, occasional pieces) as well as more translations (from Latin, represented by Horace , as well as from Italian) occupy the latter part of volume two. Many of the occasional poems...

The speakers are the same in both poems: the poet, who defends his practice as a valiant defender of the truth, and a well-wisher who tries to persuade him to tone down the dangerous socio-political...

The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?JCM calls on the...

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...

The Verses are the most brilliant of all the many satirical attacks on Pope, and one of the most offensive. They zero in on his physical disability, and claim that it is the sign of...

AJV translates from Sappho , Anacreon , Alcæus , Theocritus , Horace , and more recent poets: Petrarch and Camoens . She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute

The heroes of these tales include military and political characters but also such literary exiles as Ovid , Virgil , and Horace .

Pope 's Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace attacked LMWM and her husband together.

Pope 's Sober Advice from Horace attacked LMWM (under a variety of ingenious but permeable nicknames): to be even suggested in a poem of this pornographic tone was damaging.

FB dated the dedication of Emily Montague, to Guy Carleton , Governor of Québec, on 22 March 1769. The novel was published in four volumes, Brooke having spun it out from three to...

Though she was a contented only child, IM said that the impulse to create imaginary siblings was the thing that first inspired her to write. In her teens she was a leading contributor to the...

This highly romantic, preposterous, but engaging tale is set in France and England during the Seven Years' War. The title-page quotes (ironically, it appears) Horace 's statement that it is sweet and fitting (dulce...

A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace , Swift , and Coleridge

EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace , Shakespeare , and Milton to...

The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love...