Horace and His Influence
by Grant Showerman
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About this eBook
- Author
- Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Leonard Johnson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature
- Subject
- Horace -- Influence
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 16801
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16801
- Release Date
- October 4, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Our Debt to Greece and Rome — HORACE AND HIS INFLUENCE — 1922 — SABINE HILLS
- 2.EDITORS' PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.INTRODUCTION: THE DYNAMISM OF THE FEW — HORACE AND HIS INFLUENCE
- 5.I. HORACE INTERPRETED — The Appeal of Horace — 1. Horace the Person — 2. Horace the Poet — 3. Horace the Interpreter of His Times — HORACE THE DUALITY — i . THE INTERPRETER OF ITALIAN LANDSCAPE — ii . THE INTERPRETER OF ITALIAN LIVING — iii . THE INTERPRETER OF ROMAN RELIGION — iv . THE INTERPRETER OF THE POPULAR WISDOM — HORACE AND HELLENISM — 4. Horace the Philosopher of Life — HORACE THE SPECTATOR AND ESSAYIST — i . THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES — ii . THE PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD — iii . LIFE AND MORALITY — iv . LIFE AND PURPOSE — v . THE SOURCES OF HAPPINESS
- 6.II. HORACE THROUGH THE AGES — Introductory — 1. Horace the Prophet — 2. Horace and Ancient Rome — 3. Horace and the Middle Age — 4. Horace and Modern Times — THE REBIRTH OF HORACE — i . IN ITALY — ii . IN FRANCE — iii . IN GERMANY — iv . IN SPAIN — v . IN ENGLAND — vi . IN THE SCHOOLS
- 7.III. HORACE THE DYNAMIC — The Cultivated Few — 1. Horace and the Literary Ideal — 2. Horace and Literary Creation — i . THE TRANSLATOR'S IDEAL — MY SABINE FARM — LAUDABUNT ALII — VITAS HINNULEO — DONE BY MR. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH — URCEUS EXIT — IOCOSA LYRA — ii . CREATION — TO Q.H.F. — VIXI PUELLIS NUPER IDONEUS — 3. Horace in the Living of Men
- 8.IV. CONCLUSION
- 9.NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY — Our Debt to Greece and Rome
- 10.AUTHORS AND TITLES
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