Horace and Me
Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet
A wise and witty revival of the Roman poet who taught us how to carpe diemWhat is the value of the durable at a time when the new is paramount? How do we fill the void created by the excesses of a superficial society? What resources can we muster when confronted by the inevitability of death? For the poet and critic Harry Eyres, we can begin to answer these questions by turning to an unexpected source: the Roman poet Horace, discredited at the beginning of the twentieth century as the smug representative of imperialism, now best remembered-if remembered-for the pithy directive Carpe diem. In Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet,…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4668-3403-3
- EAN: 9781466834033
- Produktnummer: 22467848
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 869 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 Black-and-White Illustrations
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