The English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson declared that the Odes provided "jewels five-words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all Time / Sparkle for ever" (The Princess, part II, l.355).The earliest positively dated poem in the ...

The Satires of Horace from The Works of Horace. Translated literally into English prose by C. Smart. The Satires are a collection of satirical poems written by the Roman poet Horace.

HoraceOdes and EpodesQuintus Horatius Flaccus, December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).

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