Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in English as Horace, was born on 8 December 65 BC at Venusia, a Roman colony near the borderlands of Apulia and Lucania in southern Italy, and died at Rome on 27 November 8 BC. He lived through one of the most violent transformations in Roman history: the final collapse of the Republic, the civil wars that followed Julius Caesar’s assassination, and the consolidation of Augustus’ new…
“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be moving and lead the listener's mind wherever they wish.”
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Ancient & Classical Poets, Classical & Ancient Poets, Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Sensuality
Alexander Pope, born on 21 May 1688 and dead on 30 May 1744, was the supreme English poet of the Augustan age and one of the most technically accomplished writers in the language. His verse made the heroic couplet seem at once inevitable, conversational, polished, and inexhaustibly flexible. In his best work, a pair of rhyming pentameter lines can carry an argument, a joke, a moral judgment, a portrait, a burst of in…
“I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.”
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Augustan Poets, Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Light Verse Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Peace, Wonder
