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Our Debt to Greece and Rome

1922

SABINE HILLS

EDITORS' PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: THE DYNAMISM OF THE FEW

I. HORACE INTERPRETED

The Appeal of Horace

1. Horace the Person

2. Horace the Poet

3. Horace the Interpreter of His Times

HORACE THE DUALITY

i. THE INTERPRETER OF ITALIAN LANDSCAPE

ii. THE INTERPRETER OF ITALIAN LIVING

iii. THE INTERPRETER OF ROMAN RELIGION

iv. THE INTERPRETER OF THE POPULAR WISDOM

HORACE AND HELLENISM

4. Horace the Philosopher of Life

HORACE THE SPECTATOR AND ESSAYIST

i. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES

ii. THE PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD

iii. LIFE AND MORALITY

iv. LIFE AND PURPOSE

v. THE SOURCES OF HAPPINESS

II. HORACE THROUGH THE AGES

Introductory

1. Horace the Prophet

2. Horace and Ancient Rome

3. Horace and the Middle Age

4. Horace and Modern Times

THE REBIRTH OF HORACE

i. IN ITALY

ii. IN FRANCE

iii. IN GERMANY

iv. IN SPAIN

v. IN ENGLAND

vi. IN THE SCHOOLS

III. HORACE THE DYNAMIC

The Cultivated Few

1. Horace and the Literary Ideal

2. Horace and Literary Creation

i. THE TRANSLATOR'S IDEAL

MY SABINE FARM

LAUDABUNT ALII

VITAS HINNULEO

DONE BY MR. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

URCEUS EXIT

IOCOSA LYRA

ii. CREATION

TO Q.H.F.

VIXI PUELLIS NUPER IDONEUS

3. Horace in the Living of Men

IV. CONCLUSION

NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Our Debt to Greece and Rome

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