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An incisive and readable biography of the poet Horace. It is the first popular biography to have been written since the 1950s and looks at his life, contemporary Italy, his artistic development and his philosophy. Throughout, quotations are translated, sometimes using standard editions, sometimes they are Levi's own.
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Peter Levi, a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books is a former Professor of Poetry at University of Oxford. He is author and editor of more than 40 books.
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...for anyone who has caught even a glimpse of the genius of Horace, or who has developed a keen amateur interest in the Rome of the late Republic and early Empire, there is a lot to be learned from this book, and a great deal of enjoyment to be found in it.
–Allan Massie, The Daily Telegraph
...a charming and learned work.
–New England Classical Journal, March 1999
...[Levi] stitches a sympathetic commentary on Horaces work, mixing revelation with reevaluation.
–Nigel Spivey, Financial Times
This delightful, well-written, and informative book is a wonderful remedy to a real gap and will be of interest to both the general reader and the classicist.
–Library Journal
Levis book is, as far as possible, comprehensive, for he examines individually every one of Horaces poems.... [P]erhaps the most attractive quality of [Horace: A Life] is that Levi reveals his subject not simply as a great poet, but also as a good man.
–Boston Book Review
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- PublisherDuckworth & Co
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0715627554
- ISBN 13 9780715627556
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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- Number of pages256
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