The Odes Carmen Seculare And Epodes With A Commentary

Author : Horace Horace
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260161994
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Odes; Carmen Seculare; Epodes (Classic Reprint) written by Horace Horace and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Odes; Carmen Seculare; Epodes Perhaps the departinent in which modern editors have dded most, as it is the one which has had the most attrae ions to me, has been that of tracing in the several poems he sequence and proportion of the thoughts. This is a imction of criticism to which etery reader with any imagin itiou thinks himself equal; and he is apt to resent what eem to him the superfluous, if not prosaic and inadequate, mmments of another mind. A commentator on a poet so owed and familist as Horace is, at any late to the elder generation among os, must make his count for such resent ment. He would only attempt in part to disarm it, by pleading that as he has ventured at times to set aside the htetpcetations of his ptcdeccssors. So he is quite prepared that his own interpretations should be set aside by others; that it is the purpose and the method, not the particular con closions, to which he attaches value. The thoughts even of I lyrical poem do not follow one another at haphazard. If the links be forged by feeling rather than by logic, yet the feelings must be such as can be traced, and the mind cannot he really in sympathy with the poem unless consciously w unconsciously it follows them. Where the art is so conscious and elaborate as in Horace's lyrics, it is not too nnch to expect that we should be able to detect the threads which bind them into their several unities. If my efforts teach a young reader that he has not read a poem properly unless he has attemmcd to do this for himself, if they make him less ready to admit in any poet, and especially in Horace, the existence of inett epithets, and purposeless digressions or amplifications, I shall not complain that he should come to trust to: the explanation of his diflicnlties to his own imagination rather than to mine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.