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Satires, Epistles and the Art of Poetry

Horace · Translated by John Conington, 1869

Horace

Satires, Epistles and the Art of Poetry

Translated by John Conington, 1869

What this is

Horace talking rather than singing: the Satires, sketches of Roman life in a friendly, mocking voice, and the Epistles, letters in verse to friends and to Augustus, ending with the Art of Poetry, the most quoted handbook on writing ever made.

How it is set

One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.

What is not here

Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.

The two parts

  1. 1 Satires, Book I 8 sections
  2. 2 Satires, Book II 8 sections
  3. 3 Epistles, Book I 20 sections
  4. 4 Epistles, Book II 2 sections
  5. 5 The Art of Poetry 1 sections

Text: Horace, Satires, Epistles and the Art of Poetry — John Conington’s verse translation, 1869, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 5419. His notes are not printed. This translation leaves out two of the satires, I.2 and I.8, so Book I runs 1, 3–7, 9, 10.