Horace's Narrative OdesNarrative has not traditionally been a subject in the analysis of lyric poetry. This book deconstructs the polarity that divides and binds lyric and narrative means of representation in Horace's Odes. While myth is a canonical feature of Pindaric epinician, Horace cannot adopt the Pindaric mode for aesthetic and political reasons. Roman Callimacheanism's privileging of the small and elegant offers a pretext for Horace to shrink from the difficulty of writing praise poetry in the wake of civil war. But Horace by no means excludes story-telling from his enacted lyric. On the formal level, numerous odes contain narration. Together they constitute a larger narrative told over the course of Horace's two lyric collections. Horace tells the story of his development as a lyricist and of the competing aesthetic and political demands on his lyric poetry. At issue is whether he can ever truly become a poet of praise. |
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Contents
The Poetics of PresenceThe Poetics of Immortality | 14 |
Degrees of Relevance | 97 |
Civil War | 138 |
Personal Narrative and the Fantastic or the Poet | 187 |
The Roman Odes | 224 |
Narrative Seduction | 266 |
Praising Caesar | 317 |
References | 353 |
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