Directory
References
Horatian satire
literature
Learn about this topic in these articles:
influence on satire development
- In satire: Influence of Horace and Juvenal
…practice, the great Roman poets Horace and Juvenal set indelibly the lineaments of the genre known as the formal verse satire and, in so doing, exerted pervasive, if often indirect, influence on all subsequent literary satire. They gave laws to the form they established, but it must be said that…
Read More
origination with Horace
- In Latin literature: Satire
Horace saw that satire was still awaiting improvement: Lucilius had been an uncouth versifier. Satires I, 1–3 are essays in the Lucilian manner. But Horace’s nature was to laugh, not to flay, and his incidental butts were either insignificant or dead. He came to appreciate that the real…
Read More