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Featuring a number of translated Latin passages, this book is especially concerned with Horace as the poetic craftsman. Like most Roman poets, Horace was not inventive in subject-matter: he generally wrote about what we now recognize as the eternal platitudes. But Mr Wilkinson focuses on the mastery of form, rhythm and cadence that have charmed readers for centuries.Wilkinson, L. P. is the author of 'Horace and His Lyric Poetry', published 1968 under ISBN 9780521095532 and ISBN 0521095530.
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