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Horace's Poetic Journey: A Reading of Odes 1-3
By (Author) David H. Porter
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
871.01
Paperback
298
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
397g
David Porter's approach to Horace's most important lyric collection is through a close sequential reading of the eighty-eight poems in Odes 1-3. Taking into account the way an ancient book was read or recited, this view of the work as a continuously unfolding creation reveals a strong sense of forward movement and of thematic development, at times