Horace on Poetry - Epistles Book Ii: The Letters to Augustus and Florus

Klappentext This 1982 text is the culminating volume in Professor Brink's great study of Horace's critical writings. Zusammenfassung This 1982 text is the culminating volume in Professor Brink's great study of Horace's critical writings. The book contains a full edition of the Letters to Augustus and Florus! presented on the same lines as that of the Ars Poetica in the preceding volume. The edition is followed by a commentary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Some thought on 'philology' and 'method' by way of preface; Abbreviations; A note on manuscripts and editions; Excerpta ex codicibus Blandiniis Cruquiana; Conspectus Siglorum; Part I. Epistles Book II: 1. Epistula ad Augustum; 2. Epistula ad Florum; Part II. Commentary: 1. Epistula ad Augustum; 2. Epistula ad Florum; Appendixes; Part III. The Letters to Augustus and Florus as Horatian Poetry: 1. Poetic patterns; 2. The letter to Augustus; 3. Diversity and unity in the letter to Augustus; 4. The letter to Florus; 5. Diversity and unity in the letter to Florus; 6. Horace's literary epistles and their chronology: Augustanism in the Augustan poets; Bibliography; Addenda and corrigenda to Volume II, the 'Ars Poetica'; Orthography; Indexes.

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• Authors: C. O. Brink, BRINK C O, Brink C. O.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521283090
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28309-0
• No. of pages: 664
• Series: Brink: Horace on Poetry; Brink: Horace on Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets