The Epodes of Horace: A Study in Poetic Arrangement

This little book of interpretative criticism attempts in its own way to pay homage to one of Horace's most vital little books of poetry. The Epodes have in our own century and long before that not received the attention so exciting and varied a collection of poems deserves. There is no critical book in English devoted primarily to the Epodes. In German and French the last and only books went to press in 1904 and 1917 — too many years ago. Meanwhile, scholars have been at work in less ambitious publications. This present study, by incorporating not all but a considerable amount of the accumulated and worthwhile contributions to the appreciation of the Epodes, hopes to demonstrate that there is a great deal more of art and pleasure in the six hundred and twenty five lines of seventeen epodes than has been suspected and that as much is easily discernible for those with eyes, time and concern. The nearly two hundred bibliographic citations may also prove useful to students, scholars and readers of Horace...