Epistles by Horace

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Epistles by Horace is a collection of verse letters by the Roman poet Horace that blend moral reflection, literary criticism, and personal commentary in a conversational poetic style.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poetry collection
verse epistles
work by Horace
alsoKnownAs Epistulae NERFINISHED
Letters
author Horace NERFINISHED
circulation manuscript tradition in antiquity
contains Epistle to the Pisos NERFINISHED
Epistles Book I NERFINISHED
Epistles Book II NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Ancient Rome NERFINISHED
dateWritten 1st century BCE
genre didactic poetry
literary criticism
moral poetry
satirical poetry
hasPart individual epistles addressed to friends and patrons
influenced Alexander Pope NERFINISHED
Boileau NERFINISHED
Renaissance literary criticism
Roman verse epistles
medieval Latin moral poetry
literaryForm verse letters
literaryPeriod Augustan age NERFINISHED
meter hexameter
originalLanguage Latin
partOf Horace’s works
philosophicalInfluence Epicureanism NERFINISHED
Stoicism NERFINISHED
relatedWork Ars Poetica NERFINISHED
Odes by Horace NERFINISHED
Satires by Horace NERFINISHED
style conversational
didactic
informal
subject patronage
poetry and poets
social life in Augustan Rome
theme ethical philosophy
friendship
literary criticism
moral reflection
personal conduct
poetic theory
the good life

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