Horace's Satires and Epistles Download

Author: Horace
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0393044793

Horace's Satires and Epistles

Horace is perhaps best remembered as the lyric poet of the Odes, and consequently as the inventor of the form named the Horatian Ode after him. Get Horace's Satires and Epistles literature books for free.
But his achievement is more various than the Odes and Epodes suggest.Early in his life, and again in maturity, Horace sought to turn his poetic skills to the uses of moral and aesthetic discussion in the series of didactic works translated here. In the Satires, Horace adopts one persona after another, each of which reduces himself to absurdity in the process of trying to argue a point of view about the ethical or artistic life. The form of the Epistles permits Horace to write with particular intimacy, addressing moral issues in a persuasive yet in Check Horace's Satires and Epistles our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.