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Catherine Chandler

Catherine Chandler was born in New York City, grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and currently lives in Saint-Lazare, Quebec, and Punta del Este, Uruguay.

 

Horace

Horace (65 BC – 8 BC) was a Roman lyrical poet of satire and historical/pastoral odes. Son of a freedman, eventually he became close friends with Virgil. His famous Ars poetica has been an abc of poetry practice and criticism. He was given a farm near Tivoli, and there he wrote his pastoral and other poems. His main works are his Satires, Odes, Epodes, and Epistles. His Ars suggests that a poet should read widely, and be precise and plain in thought and speech. His influence has been enormous on Pope, Ben Jonson, Auden, and Frost.

 

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