18 libros parecidos a Odas

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Q. Horatii Flacci opera Horace · 1498 · ★ 3.5 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares Latin Laudatory poetry, Latin Verse satire, Latin Epistolary poetry, Latin poetry with this book.

Odes Horace · 1635 · ★ 3.4 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Challenging This groundbreaking new translation of Horace's most widely read collection of poetry is rendered in modern, metrical English verse rather than the more common free verse found in many other translations. Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz adapts the Roman poet's rich and metrically varied poetry to English formal verse, reproducing the works in a way that maintains fidelity to the tone, timbre, and style of… Shares Latin Laudatory poetry, Latin Verse satire, Latin poetry, Latin language

Satirae Horace · 1763 · ★ 5.0 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. Not as frequently translated as his Odes, in… Shares Latin Verse satire, Latin Epistolary poetry, Latin poetry, Latin language

Marmion Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares Poetry, History with this book.

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares History

The Awful Secret

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares History with this book.

The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares History

The Complete Poetical Works Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Charlotte Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the… Shares Poetry

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

Satirae Juvenal · 1648 · ★ 3.9 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Bite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (34-62 CE) and Juvenal (writing about sixty years later). The latter especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries. Shares Latin Verse satire, Latin poetry, Poetry

Elegiae Sextus Propertius · 1780 · ★ 3.9 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c.50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds most immediate appeal for the twentieth century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry, and is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods - from ecstacy to suicidal despair. The son of an… Shares Language, Latin language, History and criticism, Poetry

The complete poetical works Robert Burns · 1786 · ★ 4.1 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Poetry written by the Scottish author Robert Burns. Shares Miniature books, History and criticism, Poetry, History

Silvae Publius Papinius Statius · 1472 · ★ 3.8 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Statius' Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 AD. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, sends thanks, admires a memorable scene. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct picture quality. Statius gives us in these impromptu poems clear images of Domitian's Rome. Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This… Shares Latin Laudatory poetry, History and criticism, Poetry, History

Metamorphoses Ovid · 1479 · ★ 4.1 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Challenging The Metamorphoses is a narrative poem penned by the Roman poet Ovid. Widely considered to be his ultimate work, comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths. The poem portrays a history of the world from creation up to the deification of Julius Caesar. Metamorphoses is viewed as one of the most influential works in Western culture, inspiring authors such as Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and… Shares Latin Epistolary poetry, Latin language, Poetry

Tristia; Ex Ponto Ovid · 1892 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Shares Latin Epistolary poetry, Latin poetry, Poetry with this book.

Lays of ancient Rome Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 95p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Noteworthy among Macaulay's works are his poems, of which the 'Lays of Ancient Rome' are chief. Here his purpose is to embody his conception of the heroic historical ballads which must have been current among the early Romans as among the medieval English Shares Poetry, History

Monde primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne .. Antoine Court de Gébelin · 1773 · 567p · ≈ 18h · Challenging Shares Language, Latin language, History with this book.

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