BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Cooper, Lane. A Concordance to the Works of Horace. Washington: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916, 593p.

Every word used in Horace's writings, with complete line for context, organized in an alphabetical sequence.

Goad, Caroline. Horace in the English Literature of the Eighteenth Century. 1918. New York: Haskell House Publishers Ltd., 1967, 684p.

Compiles quotes of Horace as used in the works of great writers of the eighteenth century including Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding.

Thayer, Mary Rebecca. The Influence of Horace on the Chief English Poets of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Haskell House, 1965, 117p.

Analyzes the use of quotes of Horace by great writers of the nineteenth century including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Robert Browning.

BIOGRAPHIES

Sedgwick, Henry Dwight. Horace: A Biography. New York: Russell & Russell, 1947, 182p.

Biography of “the poet of civilized man.”

CRITICISM

Ancona, Ronnie. Time and the Erotic in Horace's “Odes”. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994, 186p.

Explores “how temporality functions as a defining feature of Horace's love poems.”

Coffman, George R. “Old Age from Horace to Chaucer. Some Literary Affinities and Adventures of an Idea.” Speculum 9, No. 3 (July 1934): 249-77.

Examines the possible influence that Horace's description of old age had on Chaucer.

Davis, Gregson. Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, 282p.

Studies Horace in the following divisions: modes of assimilation, of authentication, of consolation, and of praise and dispraise.

Fiske, George Converse. Lucilius and Horace: A Study in the Classical Theory of Imitation. Hildesheim, West Germany: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1966, 524p.

Examines the relation between the themes of Horace's satires and those of Lucilius “in the light of the theories of literary imitation current in the age of Augustus.”

Fraenkel, Eduard. Horace. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957, 363p.

Attempts a new understanding of Horace's poetry, free of the encumbrances of particular earlier commentary.

Gibbon, Edward. “Hurd on Horace.” 1762. The English Essays of Edward Gibbon: 27-53. Edited by Patricia B. Craddock. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.

Critique of commentary by Richard Hurd, an eighteenth-century editor of Horace.

Hardison, O. B., Jr. and Leon Golden. Horace for Students of Literature: The “Ars Poetica” and Its Tradition. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995, 395p.

Includes essays on or influenced by Horace's theories of poetry, including pieces by Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, and Wallace Stevens, and analyzes the Ars Poetica as a dramatic monologue.

Kilpatrick, Ross S. The Poetry of Criticism: Horace,”Epistles” II and “Ars Poetica” . Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 1990, 125p.

Examines the three literary epistles: the epistle to Augustus, the epistle to Florus, and the epistle to the Pios (the Ars Poetica ).

Lowrie, Michèle. Horace's Narrative “Odes”. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, 382p.

Examines the role of narrative within Horace's poetry and offers an interpretation of the meaning of the Odes.

Morris, E. P. “The Form of the Epistle in Horace.” Yale Classical Studies, Vol. 2: 79-114. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931.

Attempts to correct a “too-literal interpretation of the Epistles.”

Nisbet, R. G. M. and Margaret Hubbard. A Commentary on Horace: “Odes”: Book I. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970, 440p.

Classic reference attempts to explain the influence on Horace of the literary tradition.

——————. A Commentary on Horace: “Odes”: Book II. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, 355p.

Continuation of the above.

Pope, Alexander. Horatian Satires and Epistles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964, 192p.

Contains six poems dubbed by Pope “imitations of Horace.”

Santirocco, Matthew S. Unity and Design in Horace's Odes. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986, 251p.

Attempts a new interpretation of the Odes with emphasis on the poetic design of the work as a whole.

Williams, Gordon. Horace. (Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics No. 6). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, 49p.

Attempts a fresh impression on the works of Horace, independent as much as possible from the influence of other commentaries.