horatian in English

adjective
1
of or relating to the Roman poet Horace or his work.
The reader will meet a veritable galaxy of rakes, atheistic clergy, philanthropic snobs, scholars, apothecaries and antiquarians in this elegant, witty, informative and, in true Horatian style, entertaining book.

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1. IN HORATIAN Alcaics Abstract: Scholars have neglected the critical implications of the Horatian Alcaic caesura, whose very regularity creates a set of metrical expectations the poet may variously satisfy, frustrate and play upon for expressive effects

2. ‘A Late Flowering of English Alcaics’, Perceptions of Horace (Cambridge UP, 2009) ‘Eliot’s Seneca, Ted Hughes’s Oedipus’, Ted Hughes and the Classics (Oxford UP, 2009) Selected Articles ‘Critical Implications of the Caesura in Horatian Alcaics’, Classical Journal 103.1 (2007)

3. The Horatian Alcaics of "Luck," in which the poet confronts the good fortunes of others,complements the mildly brooding blank verse of "Pacific Rim," in which the poet hints at the luckless victims of 20th century brutality

4. ‘The first six odes of Book 3 are sometimes referred to as the Roman Odes, written in stately Alcaics in elevated style on patriotic themes.’ ‘Later, he was taught to turn English verse into Alcaics and sapphics in Horatian style, as well as imitating Virgil, Ovid and the Greek tragedians.’