Pope and Horace: Studies in Imitation

by Frank Stack

Book Overview

Pope printed his Imitations of Horace alongside the original Horatian poems on which they were based, and to understand these works fully it is necessary to compare in detail each Imitation with its original. This is the first book to do so. Through a close analysis of each Horatian poem (translated anew, for the many readers of Pope who do not know Latin), Mr Stack explores the complex and subtle intertextual relationship between Pope's Imitations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521266955
• ISBN13: 9780521266956
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"