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Political poetry, Latin --- Politics and literature --- History and criticism. --- Horace --- Political and social views.

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Political poetry, Latin --- Politics and literature --- History and criticism. --- Horace --- Political and social views. --- Rome --- In literature.

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Informal in tone and seemingly effortless in movement, Horace's Epistles have haunted and delighted readers for two millennia. W. R. Johnson offers an extraordinarily suggestive new interpretation of Book 1 of the Epistles, an interpretation not only of the poems but of the poet they reveal.Johnson regards the Epistles as the fruit of the poet's search for freedom, clarity of perception, and inner harmony in a complex society. He portrays Horace as a paradoxical combination of sophist and gardener, working both nature and culture within a terrain bounded on the one side by chaos and on the other by technocracy. Resisting any linear, progressive reading, he traces the key themes in the poems, such as Horace's relationships with his father and with Rome, his adoptive city, and the conflicts between urban vitality and rustic serenity and between inner freedom and outer freedom. While in the end Johnson maintains that the Epistles uphold the possibility that the individual can achieve a dynamic balance of heart and soul, he demonstrates that what nourishes the poems are the suffering and fear, resentment and anger that underlie their carefully controlled surface. Horace and the Dialectic of Freedom will engage and challenge classicists, students of Latin literature, and others interested in satire and in the history of poetry.

Epistolary poetry, Latin --- Political poetry, Latin --- Liberty in literature --- Dialectic --- History and criticism --- Horace. --- Rome --- In literature.

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Classical Latin literature --- Literary rhetorics --- Laudatory poetry, Latin --- Political poetry, Latin --- Politics and literature --- Emperors in literature --- History and criticism --- Rome --- In literature --- -Political poetry, Latin --- -Politics and literature --- -Literature --- Literature and politics --- Literature --- Latin political poetry --- Latin poetry --- Latin laudatory poetry --- Political aspects --- In literature. --- -History and criticism --- Laudatory poetry, Latin - History and criticism --- Political poetry, Latin - History and criticism --- Politics and literature - Rome --- Rome - In literature

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After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE evidenced in the works of key figures such as Ausonius, Claudian, Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola. This period of resurgence marked a milestone in the reception of the classics of late Republican and early imperial poetry. In Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry, Philip Hardie explores the ways in which poets writing on non-Christian and Christian subjects used the classical traditions of Latin poetry to construct their relationship with Rome's imperial past and present, and with the by now not-so-new belief system of the state religion, Christianity. The book pays particular attention to the themes of concord and discord, the ";cosmic sense"; of late antiquity, novelty and renouatio, paradox and miracle, and allegory. It is also a contribution to the ongoing discussion of whether there is an identifiably late antique poetics and a late antique practice of intertextuality. Not since Michael Robert's classic The Jeweled Style has a single book had so much to teach about the enduring power of Latin poetry in late antiquity.

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