Odes (Horace)
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The Odes are a collection in four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace. The Horatian ode format and style has been emulated since by other poets. Books 1 to 3 were published in 23 BC. A fourth book, consisting of 15 poems, was published in 13 BC.
A bust of Octavian, dated c. 30 BC. Capitoline Museums, Rome
Justum et tenacem propositi virum – "a man just and steadfast in purpose", from Horace's Odes, III.3, on the gravestone of Elliot Charles Bovill, Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements, in Fort Canning Green, Singapore
Monte Soratte (Soracte) seen from Via Flaminia
Lyric poetry
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Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.
Lyric Poetry (1896) Henry Oliver Walker, in the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building.
Alcaeus and Sappho depicted on an Attic red-figure calathus c. 470 BC
Benjamin Haydon's 1842 portrait of William Wordsworth.