The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Horace and the Elegiac PoetsCambridge University Press, 2010 M10 21 - 418 páginas William Young Sellar (1825-1890) was a classical scholar who specialised in the study of Roman poetry. After graduating from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1843 he held assistant professorships in various universities before being appointed Professor of Humanities at Edinburgh University in 1863, a post which he held until his death. This volume, first published posthumously in 1891, discusses the forms and development of Roman poetry in the reign of Augustus (43 BCE-14 CE); it was intended as a companion to his 1877 book on Virgil, also reissued in this series. Sellar provides a detailed discussion of Horace's many literary styles in their historical context, discusses the development of Roman elegy from early Greek forms, and analyses the works of Ovid in detail. Sellar's meticulous interpretations led to this volume becoming the standard authority on the development of Roman poetry in the early Roman Empire. |
Contenido
CONTENTS | xxxiv |
its date | xxxvi |
Horace as representative of the Angustan age I | 7 |
Education in Rome and Athens | 13 |
The Ars Poetica | 19 |
II | 20 |
Journey to Brundisium | 26 |
Town and Country ii | 27 |
The highest good | 167 |
artistic excellence of the first book | 173 |
Horace on elegiac poetry | 201 |
The elegies of Catullus | 207 |
the circle of Maecenas and the circle | 213 |
their rendering of personal feeling | 219 |
GALLUS TIBULLUS LYGDAMUS SULPICIA | 221 |
His delineation of himself in the elegies | 231 |
from 19 B C to 8 B C | 34 |
Irony | 40 |
Horaces imitations of Archilochus | 45 |
His tastes in art and literature | 47 |
The Odes Books iiii 32 | 48 |
Epod 2 difficulty of the last four lines | 52 |
Horaces iambic couplets | 53 |
Humours of the camp of Brutus | 54 |
his moderation and truth to nature | 79 |
CHAPTER III | 85 |
HORACE AS A LYRICAL POET | 118 |
Horaces study of the older Greek poets and neglect of the Alexandrians | 147 |
THE ELEGIAC POETS | 152 |
warning and reproof iii 5 and | 155 |
love of the country resemblances to Virgil | 238 |
Versification style and diction | 244 |
III | 250 |
V | 256 |
CHAPTER IV | 293 |
Cynthias ghost | 295 |
the temper of his poetry | 310 |
the mountains | 316 |
Estimate of the art and genius of Propertius | 322 |
Spirit of the Amores | 328 |
spontaneity and freshness of Ovids | 347 |
love and adventure scenes of war occasional | 354 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Horace and the Elegiac Poets William Young Sellar,W Y Sellar Vista previa limitada - 1990 |
The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Horace and the Elegiac Poets William Young Sellar,Andrew Lang Vista de fragmentos - 1965 |
The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Horace and the Elegiac Poets W. Y. Sellar,Andrew Lang Sin vista previa disponible - 2014 |
Términos y frases comunes
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