Victorian Horace : classics and class /

The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned, became a model for the English gentleman. Horace and the Victorians examines the English reception of Horace in Victorian culture, a period which saw the foundations of the discipli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harrison, S. J. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017]
Series:	Classical inter/faces.
Subjects:	Horace > Influence. Horace > Criticism and interpretation. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. English literature > Classical influences. Classicism > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.

Table of Contents:

1: Introduction: from English Augustan to Victorian gentlemanly Horace
2: Horace in education: editions and commentaries
3: Translations of Horace: Victorian versions
4: Horace in poetry: Clough, Fitzgerald, Tennyson and others.
5: Horace in prose: Thackeray, Trollope and others
6: Horace democratised: contemporary Horace and contemporary classics
Bibliography
Index.