Horace and His Influence
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admiration of them has through successive ages always been a token of aspiration and of a striving for better things.
The significance of Horace to the twentieth century will gain in clarity from an understanding of his meaning to other days.
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- INTRODUCTION: THE DYNAMISM OF THE FEWSample
- The Appeal of Horace
- 1. Horace the Person
- 2. Horace the Poet
- i. THE INTERPRETER OF ITALIAN LANDSCAPE
- ii. THE INTERPRETER OF ITALIAN LIVING
- iii. THE INTERPRETER OF ROMAN RELIGION
- iv. THE INTERPRETER OF THE POPULAR WISDOM
- HORACE AND HELLENISM
- HORACE THE SPECTATOR AND ESSAYIST
- i. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES
- ii. THE PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD
- iii. LIFE AND MORALITY
- iv. LIFE AND PURPOSE
- v. THE SOURCES OF HAPPINESS
- Introductory
- 1. Horace the Prophet
- 2. Horace and Ancient Rome
- 3. Horace and the Middle Age
- THE REBIRTH OF HORACE
- i. IN ITALY
- ii. IN FRANCE
- iii. IN GERMANY
- iv. IN SPAIN
- v. IN ENGLAND
- vi. IN THE SCHOOLS
- The Cultivated Few
- 1. Horace and the Literary Ideal
- i. THE TRANSLATOR'S IDEAL
- MY SABINE FARM LAUDABUNT ALII
- VITAS HINNULEO DONE BY MR. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
- URCEUS EXIT
- IOCOSA LYRA
- ii. CREATION
- TO Q.H.F.
- VIXI PUELLIS NUPER IDONEUS
- 3. Horace in the Living of Men
- IV. CONCLUSION
- NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
- AUTHORS AND TITLES