Introduction: Reading the Odes Today -- Horace's Life -- Before the Odes -- To the Cool Grove: The Ascent to Lyric -- Odes 1-3: The Collection -- Three Odes -- Friendship and Advice -- Amatory Poems -- Political Poems -- After the Odes I: The Book of...
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Introduction: Reading the Odes Today -- Horace's Life -- Before the Odes -- To the Cool Grove: The Ascent to Lyric -- Odes 1-3: The Collection -- Three Odes -- Friendship and Advice -- Amatory Poems -- Political Poems -- After the Odes I: The Book of Epistles -- Lyric Revisited: The Carmen saeculare and the Fourth Book of Odes -- After the Odes II: The Literary Epistles -- Reception of the Odes: From Propertius to Seamus Heaney. "Horace's body of lyric poetry, the Odes, is one of the greatest achievements of Latin literature and a foundational text for the Western poetic tradition. These 103 exquisitely crafted poems speak in a distinctive voice-usually detached, often ironic, always humane-, reflecting on the changing Roman world that Horace lived in and also on more universal themes of friendship, love, and mortality. In this book Richard Tarrant introduces readers to the Odes by situating them in the context of Horace's career as a poet and by defining their relationship to earlier literature, Greek and Roman. Several poems have been freshly translated by the author; others appear in versions by Horace's best modern translators. A number of poems are analyzed in detail, illustrating Horace's range of subject matter and his characteristic techniques of form and structure. A substantial final chapter traces the reception of the Odes from Horace's own time to the present. Readers of this book will gain an appreciation for the artistry of one of the finest lyric poets of all time"--
