Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and His Readers Book

Introduction: a Roman poet and his readers L. B. T. Houghton and Maria Wyke; 1. Becoming an authority: Horace on his own reception Denis Feeney; 2. The ends of the beginning: Horace, Satires 1 Emily Gowers; 3. Horace's Bacchic poetics Alessandro Schiesaro; 4. Horace: critics, canons and canonicity J. S. C. Eidinow; 5. Laying down the law: Horace's reflection in his sententiae Martin Dinter; 6. Social status and the authorial personae of Horace and Vitruvius Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols; 7. Writing to the emperor: Horace's presence in Ovid's Tristia 2 Jennifer Ingleheart; 8. Horace, Suetonius, and the Lives of the Greek poets Barbara Graziosi; 9. Two letters to Horace: Petrarch and Andrew Lang L. B. T. Houghton; 10. Horace and learned ladies Jane Stevenson; 11. Vivere secundum Horatium: Otto Vaenius' Emblemata Horatiana Roland Mayer; 12. The poet's voice: allusive dialogue in Ben Jonson's Horatian poetry V. A. Moul; 13. Theme and variation: Horace in Pope's correspondence Niall Rudd; 14. Appropriating Horace in eighteenth-century France Russell Goulbourne; 15. Horace and eighteenth-century commentary Penelope Wilson; 16. Horace and the Victorians Stephen Harrison; 17. A late flowering of English Alcaics John Talbot.