Horace

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...

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...

This title-page quotes from Horace , Lyttelton , and Addison . The first tale, Genius (told partly in letters), fills volume one, and the second, Enthusiasm, volumes two and three. Both attributes are presented...

DPC was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace on her title-page, Pope to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer , Shakespeare , Goldsmith ...

The action of this novel takes place in many different parts of Italy. Its features include a mystery over the heroine's birth (her mother was an escaped nun and her father was burned by...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

This collection, wrote Waddell as translator, had no academic justification: it is arbitrary and unrepresentative of any author, or of any age. It reflected her despair during the months when the Second World War ceased...

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