Odes
Across four books of short poems in borrowed Greek meters, an Augustan poet turns from public odes on Roman virtue and Cleopatra's defeat to invitations, wine, ageing friends and the turning year. The characteristic move is to shrink a vast subject down to one afternoon and a single cup, then let mortality show through it. The source of carpe diem and of the boast to have built a monument more lasting than bronze, and the model for European lyric from Petrarch onward.
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- modeled on ↑ Ode to Aphrodite
- ↓ Dulce et Decorum Est
- ↓ An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
- ↓ Odes of Ricardo Reis
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