Profile of Horace

Shackleton Bailey, D. R.

ISBN 10: 0674713257 / ISBN 13: 9780674713253

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982

About this Item

First Harvard University Press edition, 1982; the copyright page carries no later printing statement. Red cloth hardcover with gilt spine lettering, in the original unclipped dust jacket. A clean, tight copy: boards square, bright and unmarked front and rear, gilt bright, text block white and unfoxed, jacket bright with only faint edge rubbing and no chips or tears. Light pencil brackets and marginal lines appear on scattered pages throughout the text; the text itself is unmarked, with no underlining, inscription, bookplate or ex-library marks. Includes the appendices on Horatiana and on Bentley and Horace, Latin texts, and indexes.

Seller Inventory # NGP-SHACPOH

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Profile of Horace
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674713257
• ISBN 13: 9780674713253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: Octavo ~23 cm / 9" tall Octavo, Approximately 23 centimetres, or 9 inches tall

About this title

Synopsis

In this concise analysis, written with elegant wit, the greatest living textual critic of Latin authors offers new insight into the poetry of Horace.

Horace is best known for his four books of Odes, cherished for their lyric grace. His amiable persona is displayed more intimately in the moralizing verses of the Satires and Epistles. In a reading of all the poetry, but focusing especially on problematic areas, Shackleton Bailey examines Horace's art of self-presentation. A variety of themes are elucidated, from the poet's relations with his patron to Roman sexual attitudes. Close scrutiny is given to about thirty passages which, he argues, have been misread. An appended essay on a notable predecessor, the textual scholar Richard Bentley, is especially revealing on the art of classical scholarship.

About the Author

D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University.