Horace on Poetry
Epistles Book II: The Letters to Augustus and Florus

This 1982 text is the culminating volume in Professor Brink's great study of Horace's critical writings.

C. O. Brink (Author)

9780521283090, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 9 June 2011

664 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm, 0.92 kg

Originally published in 1982, this is the culminating volume in Professor Brink's great study of Horace's critical writings. The book contains a full edition of the Letters to Augustus and Florus, presented on the same lines as that of the Ars Poetica in the preceding volume. The edition is followed by a very detailed commentary which seeks to justify his text of the poems, and on this basis leads to an assessment of style and subject matter in the two epistles. In the second half an attempt is made to unravel the complexities of Horace's mode of composition and to determine the scope of the critical epistles against the background of Augustan poetry. The complete three-volume commentary constitutes one of the fullest scholarly commentaries on Horace's critical writing. It will continue to be of great value to all with an interest in this much-debated subject.

Acknowledgements
Some thought on 'philology' and 'method' by way of preface
Abbreviations
A note on manuscripts and editions
Excerpta ex codicibus Blandiniis Cruquiana
Conspectus Siglorum
Part I. Epistles Book II: 1. Epistula ad Augustum
2. Epistula ad Florum
Part II. Commentary: 1. Epistula ad Augustum
2. Epistula ad Florum
Appendixes
Part III. The Letters to Augustus and Florus as Horatian Poetry: 1. Poetic patterns
2. The letter to Augustus
3. Diversity and unity in the letter to Augustus
4. The letter to Florus
5. Diversity and unity in the letter to Florus
6. Horace's literary epistles and their chronology: Augustanism in the Augustan poets
Bibliography
Addenda and corrigenda to Volume II, the 'Ars Poetica'
Orthography
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]