Book ´ Horace for Students of Literature The Ars Poetica and Its Tradition Ç O.B. Hardison Jr.
Original insights into Horace's influential poem George A Kennedy Paddison professor of classics and professor of comparative literature University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe influence of Horace's Ars Poetica on literary criticism across the ages has sometimes manifested itself in straightforward and direct ways and sometimes in a subtler obliue fashion This volume offers for the first time an anthology of important texts with accompanying commentary that illustrate this diverse and significant Horatian influence The authors demonstrate that what has endured since the first century BC in Horace's poetic theory and what has been adapted from it by his successors are themes of permanent value to students of literature and criticism Using a series of texts fr
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Horace for Students of Literature The Ars Poetica and Its TraditionR or editor of many books including The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics; Disappearing Through the Skylight Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century winner of the 1990 Los Angeles Times nonfiction book prize; Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance; Medieval Literary Criticism Translations and Interpretations; and with Leon Golden Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism and Aristotle's Poetics A Translation and Commentary for Students of Literature UPF 1981 Leon Golden is professor of classics and director of the Program in the Humanities at Florida State University He is also the author of Aristotle on Tragic and Comic Mimesis In Praise of Prometheus Humanism and Rationalism in Aeschylean Thought and numerous articles and book chapters