Artifices of Eternity. Horace's Fourth Book of Odes. - PUTNAM, M.C.J.,

KORTE INHOUD

?It would be difficult to imagine a more welcome subject explored by a more sensitive scholar. We focus first on the broad outline of ?Odes 4?: ?Venus? is the second word of 4.1, ?Veneris? the penultimate word of 4.15. The framing marks direction: 4.1 addresses Venus as mistress of love-making; 4.15, which turns to the renewal of Rome is about music-making. The personal vocative in 4.1 gives way to the genitive, ?Veneris?: Venus hands us on, through birth, to the Roman descendants of Aeneas. Book 4 thus takes us from private eroticism, outward into the world at large. For Putnam this perception of private voices as they grow into public song is moving: the encroachment of time upon the individual, and his increasing awareness of physical limitations, are superseded by the spiritual energy which derives from greater horizons. (?) Five triads structure ?Odes 4?. In each set, three poems lead us from a sense of personal loss to consider the role of poetry, in the abstract at first but then also applied to the Au... Lees verder...

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1996Uitgever: Cornell University Press