The Roman poets of the Augustan age
Subtitle: Horace and the elegiac poets.
By: With a memoir of the author by Andrew Lang.
Contributors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912.
Publisher: Biblo and Tannen
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Influence; Horace -- Criticism and interpretation; Latin poetry -- History and criticism; Elegiac poetry, Latin -- History and criticism; Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Reprint of the 1st ed., published in 1892.
Table of contents: title: Life and personal characteristics of Horace -- The satires -- Horace as a moralist -- Horace as a literary critic. Epistles, Book II, Ars Poetica -- Horace as a lyrical poet. The epodes -- Horace as a lyrical poet. The Epodes -- Horace as a lyrical poet. The Odes -- The elegiac poets. Roman elegy -- Gallus, Tibullus, Lygdamus, Sulpicia -- Propertius: life and personal characteristics -- The art and genius of Propertius -- Ovid.