Horatian Readings: Poetic and Literary Texture

This volume collects eighteen pieces on Horace written over the last two decades. They share a common interest in the close reading of Horace’s poems, especially of the Odes, and are intended to stand alongside the more formal analyses in my commentary on Odes 2 (2017) and the readings of Horatian poems in my monograph on generic enrichment (2007).

These pieces share a number of particular concerns linked to issues prominent in classical scholarship over the period: literary career criticis...