Title: Satirae
Description: The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. Not as frequently translated as his Odes, in recent decades the Satires have been rendered into prose or bland verse. Horace continues to influence modern lyric poetry, and our greatest poets continue to translate and marvel at his command of formal style, his economy of expression, his variety, and his mature humanism. Horace's comic genius has also had a profound influence on the Western literary tradition through such authors as Swift, Pope, and Boileau, but interest in the Satires has dwindled due to the difficulty of capturing Horace's wit and formality with the techniques of contemporary free verse. -- Publisher description.
Subjects: Latin Verse satire, Translations into English, Poetry, Translations into Italian, Translations into German, Translations into Russian, Latin Epistolary poetry, Readers, Latin language, Latin literature, Translations into Latin, Latin Satire, Latin poetry, English literature, Criticism and interpretation, Translations from Latin, Translations into Catalan, Latin language materials, Horace, Epic poetry, history and criticism, Rome, in literature, Ancient Aesthetics, Latin Didactic poetry, Poetics, Latin poetry, translations into english, Satire, latin, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Satire, Perseus (greek mythology), Verse satire, latin, Biography, Officials and employees, Mexico. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Early works to 1800
Places: Rome
People: Horace