HORATIUS.
Carmina.
Rec. P. Hofman Peerlkamp.
Amsterdam; 1862.
Original red morocco with decorative spine and gilt coat of arms of Delft on both sides.
(Ties lacks, spine ends a bit dam., slightly browned, some repairs to the spine).
Copy with prize to D. van Kuijk, dated July 22nd 1862.
Text in Latin
Size 5 1/2 by 9 1/4"

The Odes (Latin: Carmina) are a collection in four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace.
The Horatian ode format and style has been emulated since by other poets. Books 1 to 3 were published in 23 BC. A fourth book, consisting of 15 poems, was published in 13 BC.
The Odes were developed as a conscious imitation of the short lyric poetry of Greek originals – Pindar, Sappho and Alcaeus are some of Horace's models. His genius lay in applying these older forms to the social life of Rome in the age of Augustus. The Odes cover a range of subjects – Love, Friendship, Wine, Religion, Morality, Patriotism; poems of eulogy addressed to Augustus and his relations; and verses written on a miscellany of subjects and incidents, including the uncertainty of life, the cultivation of tranquility and contentment, and the observance of moderation or the "golden mean."
The Odes have been considered traditionally by English-speaking scholars as purely literary works. Recent evidence by a Horatian scholar suggests they may have been intended as performance art, a Latin re-interpretation of Greek lyric song.
The Roman writer Petronius, writing less than a century after Horace's death, remarked on the curiosa felicitas (studied spontaneity) of the Odes (Satyricon 118).
The English poet Alfred Tennyson declared that the Odes provided "jewels five-words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all Time / Sparkle for ever" (The Princess, part II, l.355).



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