Horace: A Life

“…for anyone who has caught even a glimpse of the genius of Horace, or who has developed a keen amateur interest in the Rome of the late Republic and early Empire, there is a lot to be learned from this book, and a great deal of enjoyment to be found in it.” — Allan Massie, TheDaily Telegraph
“…a charming and learned work.” — New England ClassicalJournal
“…[Levi] stitches a sympathetic commentary on Horace’s work, mixing revelation with reevaluation.” — Nigel Spivey, Financial Times
“This delightful, well-written, and informative book is a wonderful remedy to a real gap and will be of interest to both the general reader and the classicist.” — LibraryJournal
“Levi’s book is, as far as possible, comprehensive, for he examines individually every one of Horace’s poems… [P]erhaps the most attractive quality of [Horace: A Life] is that Levi reveals his subject not simply as a great poet, but also as a good man.” — Boston Book Review
“… spellbinding …” — The New Republic

Peter Levi, a frequent contributor to The New York Reviewof Books is a former Professor of Poetry at University of Oxford. He is author and editor of more than 40 books.