Horace Made New: Horatian Influences on British Writing from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century

by Edited by Charles Martindale , David Hopkins

• ISBN13: 9780521119238
• ISBN10: 0521119235
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book, first published in 1993 and a celebration of the bimillennium of Horace's death and a successor to Ovid Renewed (Cambridge University Press, 1988), explores in a balanced and comprehensive way, the presence of Horace in English letters and culture from the Renaissance onwards, in the form of a series of critical essays. It shows that there has been a continuous interest in Horace throughout the modern period, whereas it is often supposed that Horace's influence was only of central importance in the eighteenth century. Horace indeed is a major (if often hidden) element in the English poetic tradition, both directly and through the imitation and appropriation of his works by Wyatt, Jonson, Dryden, Pope and others. The book also casts fresh light on the character and interpretation of Horace, things intimately connected with the historical 'reception' of his works, particularly by some of their most influential and sensitive readers, the great English poets. The collection is aimed at a wide and general readership.

Table of Contents

List of plates

Notes on contributors

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Horace at home and abroad: Wyatt and sixteenth-century Horatianism

The best master of virtue and wisdom: the Horace of Ben Jonson and his heirs

Marvell and Horace: colour and translucency

Cowley's Horatian mice

Figures of Horace in Dryden's literary criticism

Horace's Ode 3.29: Dryden's 'Masterpiece in English'

Pope and Horace Robin Sowerby

Good humour and the Agelasts: Horace, Pope

Horace and the nineteenth century Norman Vance

Horace's Kipling

Some aspects of Horace in the twentieth century

Deniable evidence: translating Horace

Postscript: images of Horace in twentieth-century scholarship

Notes

Bibliography

Plates

Index

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