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“Stothard knows his source material backwards—and has fun with it.”—Rachel Cunliffe, Times (UK)
“Vibrant and enthralling . . . [and] relevant today. . . . A compelling portrait of a man and his times that will entrance.”—Jim Kelly, Air Mail
“Vivid, informative and probing.”—William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement
“[Stothard’s] books are so intensely enjoyable, so invigoratingly smart. . . . So it is with this new book. . . . [A] remarkably energetic work, with two standout bits of excellence. The first of these is Stothard’s running commentary on the poems themselves, which tends to make Horace’s artistic development as gripping as if readers were watching it happen in real time. . . . And the second bit of excellence: 30 pages of close-typed Source Notes that veritably sing with erudition and zest.”—Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review
“Beautifully-written. . . . Stothard writes so compellingly that you feel you are never more than a few feet away from the poet in all his lardy splendour.”—Daisy Dunn, Spectator
“Stothard has written a splendid and fascinating book that will surely have us rereading it time and again. No body interested in late republican and early imperial Rome should miss it.”—Allan Massie, Literary Review
“A pert, canny, and enchanting biography.”―New Criterion
“In an always lucid, evenly flowing prose, Stothard sets out Horace’s family background, corrects mistaken notions about him, and connects his life and career to the major events and players of his day. . . . [Horace] was in his poetry able to establish a winning intimacy between himself and his readers that traveled down through the centuries.”—Joseph Epstein, National Review
“[Stothard] manages with fine economy and immensely readable sentences to integrate life and times (and what times) in a most compelling narrative.”―Cultag Press Blog
“Among the valuable takeaways from Horace: we do ourselves no favor by censoring the past—we need to perceive it in its full, horrifying context. But that does not mean its artists should be condemned, especially those, like Horace, who advocated seizing on the immediate with existential zest.”—Thomas Filbin, Arts Fuse
“Perhaps the greatest strength of this biography is Stothard’s close reading of Horace’s work, including both the Latin (for the nerdier connoisseurs) and his translations (for the benefit of all readers). Words matter, and for a poet who took much time choosing each one carefully, words matter even more than for most. I have a greater appreciation for Horace as both a poet and a thinker after reading this biography.”—Nadya Williams, University Bookman
“Enviably graceful and erudite. . . . [Stothard] opens up Horace’s poetry for new and experienced readers alike.”—Spencer A. Klavan, Claremont Review of Books
“Dazzling. . . . An elegantly written biography of a famous, but still little-known, man.”—Joan Baum, Baum on Books, WSHU Public Radio
“Peter Stothard is a master of modern writing about ancient Rome, of vividly bringing to life its poetry and its poets.”—Mary Beard
“A fascinating biography of an extraordinary life. Sexual abuse and the madness of war beyond the better-known moral lectures, wine, and rose petals. A brilliant and compelling study that brings Horace to life for a new generation.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity
“In this lively biography of Horace and his times, Stothard shows how a poet is not only born, but made. From humble beginnings (the son of a slave), through education, application, and luck, even after finding himself on the losing side of a civil war, Horace finds himself rubbing shoulders with Rome’s elite. Stothard wears his considerable learning with gossamer lightness, keeping a weather eye on the poems (there is something here for the Latinist as well as the layman) even as he tells Horace’s story. Coming of age in an uncertain era of strong men jostling for dominance, as dreams of restoring the Republic faded and the world order was upended, Horace is a poet not only for all time, but for our times. Should poets be speaking truth, albeit slant, to autocratic power, or distract themselves with love, friendship and song? In Horace’s modern poems, technical feats of meter and mosaics of word order, he shows the way of the Roman road, ‘straight where it can be, sinuous where it has to be.’ No one knows what’s coming. Seize the moment.”—A. E. Stallings, author of Frieze Frame
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Editorial Reviews
Review
“Stothard knows his source material backwards—and has fun with it.”—Rachel Cunliffe, Times (UK)
“Vibrant and enthralling . . . [and] relevant today. . . . A compelling portrait of a man and his times that will entrance.”—Jim Kelly, Air Mail
“Vivid, informative and probing.”—William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement
“[Stothard’s] books are so intensely enjoyable, so invigoratingly smart. . . . So it is with this new book. . . . [A] remarkably energetic work, with two standout bits of excellence. The first of these is Stothard’s running commentary on the poems themselves, which tends to make Horace’s artistic development as gripping as if readers were watching it happen in real time. . . . And the second bit of excellence: 30 pages of close-typed Source Notes that veritably sing with erudition and zest.”—Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review
“Beautifully-written. . . . Stothard writes so compellingly that you feel you are never more than a few feet away from the poet in all his lardy splendour.”—Daisy Dunn, Spectator
“Stothard has written a splendid and fascinating book that will surely have us rereading it time and again. No body interested in late republican and early imperial Rome should miss it.”—Allan Massie, Literary Review
“A pert, canny, and enchanting biography.”―New Criterion
“In an always lucid, evenly flowing prose, Stothard sets out Horace’s family background, corrects mistaken notions about him, and connects his life and career to the major events and players of his day. . . . [Horace] was in his poetry able to establish a winning intimacy between himself and his readers that traveled down through the centuries.”—Joseph Epstein, National Review
“[Stothard] manages with fine economy and immensely readable sentences to integrate life and times (and what times) in a most compelling narrative.”―Cultag Press Blog
“Among the valuable takeaways from Horace: we do ourselves no favor by censoring the past—we need to perceive it in its full, horrifying context. But that does not mean its artists should be condemned, especially those, like Horace, who advocated seizing on the immediate with existential zest.”—Thomas Filbin, Arts Fuse
“Perhaps the greatest strength of this biography is Stothard’s close reading of Horace’s work, including both the Latin (for the nerdier connoisseurs) and his translations (for the benefit of all readers). Words matter, and for a poet who took much time choosing each one carefully, words matter even more than for most. I have a greater appreciation for Horace as both a poet and a thinker after reading this biography.”—Nadya Williams, University Bookman
“Enviably graceful and erudite. . . . [Stothard] opens up Horace’s poetry for new and experienced readers alike.”—Spencer A. Klavan, Claremont Review of Books
“Dazzling. . . . An elegantly written biography of a famous, but still little-known, man.”—Joan Baum, Baum on Books, WSHU Public Radio
“Peter Stothard is a master of modern writing about ancient Rome, of vividly bringing to life its poetry and its poets.”—Mary Beard
“A fascinating biography of an extraordinary life. Sexual abuse and the madness of war beyond the better-known moral lectures, wine, and rose petals. A brilliant and compelling study that brings Horace to life for a new generation.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity
“In this lively biography of Horace and his times, Stothard shows how a poet is not only born, but made. From humble beginnings (the son of a slave), through education, application, and luck, even after finding himself on the losing side of a civil war, Horace finds himself rubbing shoulders with Rome’s elite. Stothard wears his considerable learning with gossamer lightness, keeping a weather eye on the poems (there is something here for the Latinist as well as the layman) even as he tells Horace’s story. Coming of age in an uncertain era of strong men jostling for dominance, as dreams of restoring the Republic faded and the world order was upended, Horace is a poet not only for all time, but for our times. Should poets be speaking truth, albeit slant, to autocratic power, or distract themselves with love, friendship and song? In Horace’s modern poems, technical feats of meter and mosaics of word order, he shows the way of the Roman road, ‘straight where it can be, sinuous where it has to be.’ No one knows what’s coming. Seize the moment.”—A. E. Stallings, author of Frieze Frame
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