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Good to see a magazine editor give a cover show to the Books of the Year. Great selectors in @tommctague.bsky.social 's sparky New Statesman, one of the first papers I wrote for 50 years ago. So good to see Horace, Poet on a Volcano as a BOTY today. @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Good to see a magazine editor give a cover show to the Books of the Year. Great selectors in @tommctague.bsky.social 's sparky New Statesman, one of the first papers I wrote for 50 years ago. So good to see Horace, Poet on a Volcano as a BOTY today. @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social
“Horace: Poet on a Volcano” by Peter Stothard - Tweetspeak Poetry - www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2025/09/16/h...
Thanks to Glynn Young for this. @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
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“Horace: Poet on a Volcano” by Peter Stothard - Tweetspeak Poetry
In "Horace: Poet on a Volcano," British author and journalist Peter Stothard tells the story of the Roman poet through his odes.
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October 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
“Horace: Poet on a Volcano” by Peter Stothard - Tweetspeak Poetry - www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2025/09/16/h...
Thanks to Glynn Young for this. @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
Thanks to Glynn Young for this. @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
John Le Carre, artist as well as writer, on a predecessor at turning spying into literature. Somerset Maugham as a wise owl (maybe) from a highly intelligent exhibition from Le Carre’s newly catalogued archive at the Bodleian in Oxford @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
John Le Carre, artist as well as writer, on a predecessor at turning spying into literature. Somerset Maugham as a wise owl (maybe) from a highly intelligent exhibition from Le Carre’s newly catalogued archive at the Bodleian in Oxford @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
'Pert, canny and enchanting': The Critic’s Notebook on my Horace, Poet on a Volcano in the New Criterion. Thanks. Does 'pert' in US English mean sexy, bold, sassy or what? Not so common on the British side of the Atlantic these days. @yalepress @YaleBooks newcriterion.com/dispatch/the...
“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors
On Horace, religious freedom, treasures from the Holy Land, house museums, rare books & more from the world of culture.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
'Pert, canny and enchanting': The Critic’s Notebook on my Horace, Poet on a Volcano in the New Criterion. Thanks. Does 'pert' in US English mean sexy, bold, sassy or what? Not so common on the British side of the Atlantic these days. @yalepress @YaleBooks newcriterion.com/dispatch/the...
A little like Bob Dylan', says @theclaremontreview of Horace in a California review of my 'enviably graceful and erudite' Poet on a Volcano. Thanks for that. In Horace's mirrored room for sex the poet 'managed to become an icon and an enigma at once'. Thanks for that too.
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September 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A little like Bob Dylan', says @theclaremontreview of Horace in a California review of my 'enviably graceful and erudite' Poet on a Volcano. Thanks for that. In Horace's mirrored room for sex the poet 'managed to become an icon and an enigma at once'. Thanks for that too.
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'Vivid, informative and probing' is the verdict of the King's London Latin professor, William Fitzgerald, on my Horace, Poet on a Volcano. 'A style out of Tacitus by way of Ronald Syme'. I'll proudly settle for that. www.the-tls.com/classics/hor... @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
A poet who prospered despite Rome’s bloody civil wars
Poet on a Volcano might seem a strange choice of title for the biography of a poet whose Odes were described by George Meredith as “the chanted philosophy
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August 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'Vivid, informative and probing' is the verdict of the King's London Latin professor, William Fitzgerald, on my Horace, Poet on a Volcano. 'A style out of Tacitus by way of Ronald Syme'. I'll proudly settle for that. www.the-tls.com/classics/hor... @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
Joseph Epstein compares Horace and Auden in a stimulating. review of my Life of Horace in @nationalreview. And thanks to him for putting me in some very exalted company! @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social www.nationalreview.com/magazine/202...
Horace for the Ages | National Review
Revived by modern translators, Horace’s poetry endures.
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July 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Joseph Epstein compares Horace and Auden in a stimulating. review of my Life of Horace in @nationalreview. And thanks to him for putting me in some very exalted company! @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social www.nationalreview.com/magazine/202...
Hats off to @heffersbookshop of Cambridge for Horace's place at the centre of their All Your Summer Reads window today. @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Hats off to @heffersbookshop of Cambridge for Horace's place at the centre of their All Your Summer Reads window today. @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
In my youth I read much about Rome by Alan Massie. So it's wonderful that he today finds Horace, Poet on a Volcano 'a splendid and fascinating book that will surely have us rereading it time and again'. literaryreview.co.uk/all-odes-lea...
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Allan Massie - All Odes Lead to Rome
Allan Massie: All Odes Lead to Rome - Horace: Poet on a Volcano by Peter Stothard
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July 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In my youth I read much about Rome by Alan Massie. So it's wonderful that he today finds Horace, Poet on a Volcano 'a splendid and fascinating book that will surely have us rereading it time and again'. literaryreview.co.uk/all-odes-lea...
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I’ve just tried the Horace men’s cologne that I bought - in superstitious enthusiasm - when Horace, Poet on a Volcano came out. I now smell like a Baghdad spice bar! Persicos odi, puer, apparatus, as H himself put it. @yalepress @yalebooks
June 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I’ve just tried the Horace men’s cologne that I bought - in superstitious enthusiasm - when Horace, Poet on a Volcano came out. I now smell like a Baghdad spice bar! Persicos odi, puer, apparatus, as H himself put it. @yalepress @yalebooks
Thanks to @suzyfeay and her wonderful Book Bag show for our talk on Horace, Poet on a Volcano. 'A brilliant job', says Suzy perspicaciously. Plus tricky days editing The Times and my shame at never having read Harry Potter. youtube.com/watch?v=1tYx...
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Suzi chats with Peter Stothard
YouTube video by Suzi's Book Bag - A home for book lovers.
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June 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Thanks to @suzyfeay and her wonderful Book Bag show for our talk on Horace, Poet on a Volcano. 'A brilliant job', says Suzy perspicaciously. Plus tricky days editing The Times and my shame at never having read Harry Potter. youtube.com/watch?v=1tYx...
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'Peter Stothard has written some great books of non-fiction. I loved The Last Assassin. But with Horace: Poet on a Volcano, he really has done a magnificent job.' Thanks to fionaforsyth.substack.com/p/how-real-i... @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
How real is Horace?
tecum vivere amem, tecum obeam libens
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June 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
'Peter Stothard has written some great books of non-fiction. I loved The Last Assassin. But with Horace: Poet on a Volcano, he really has done a magnificent job.' Thanks to fionaforsyth.substack.com/p/how-real-i... @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
Good to see Horace next to Pompeii in @heffers.bsky.social
He was maybe more a Herculaneum man himself. Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s book is refreshing, as is the man himself. @yalebooks.bsky.social
He was maybe more a Herculaneum man himself. Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s book is refreshing, as is the man himself. @yalebooks.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Good to see Horace next to Pompeii in @heffers.bsky.social
He was maybe more a Herculaneum man himself. Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s book is refreshing, as is the man himself. @yalebooks.bsky.social
He was maybe more a Herculaneum man himself. Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s book is refreshing, as is the man himself. @yalebooks.bsky.social
'A verse describes a woman with a man, ‘head-down, as she did her work like a Thracian drinking beer through a straw’. Golly. This certainly isn’t the Horace we met in Latin lessons!'. Daisy Dunn in @thespectator1828.bsky.social today on a 'beautifully written new biography'. @yalebooks.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
'A verse describes a woman with a man, ‘head-down, as she did her work like a Thracian drinking beer through a straw’. Golly. This certainly isn’t the Horace we met in Latin lessons!'. Daisy Dunn in @thespectator1828.bsky.social today on a 'beautifully written new biography'. @yalebooks.bsky.social
Thanks to @NadyaWilliams81 and The Russell Kirk Centre kirkcenter.org/reviews/poet... alerting their Christian followers to Horace, Poet on a Volcano. The early church was keen to find support from pagan authors if it could. A fine tradition.
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June 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Thanks to @NadyaWilliams81 and The Russell Kirk Centre kirkcenter.org/reviews/poet... alerting their Christian followers to Horace, Poet on a Volcano. The early church was keen to find support from pagan authors if it could. A fine tradition.
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Great to see that the Catholic magazine, @thetablet.bsky.social found a spiritual headline in my Horace. And for those wanting a more carnal poet here are some roses where a gracilis puer might enjoy his Pyrrha - however briefly. @yalepress. @yalebooks.
May 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Great to see that the Catholic magazine, @thetablet.bsky.social found a spiritual headline in my Horace. And for those wanting a more carnal poet here are some roses where a gracilis puer might enjoy his Pyrrha - however briefly. @yalepress. @yalebooks.
I'd already read online this lovely review of my Horace, Poet on a Volcano but for those of us of a certain age nothing beats buying a print copy from a newsagent this morning. @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @thetimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I'd already read online this lovely review of my Horace, Poet on a Volcano but for those of us of a certain age nothing beats buying a print copy from a newsagent this morning. @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @thetimes.com
Looking forward to Horace's festival debut at beautiful Nevill Holt. Perfect place of art and wine for Rome's master poet. Join us on 14 June. @nevillholtfestival instagram.com/p/DJmZhdVKIY...
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May 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Looking forward to Horace's festival debut at beautiful Nevill Holt. Perfect place of art and wine for Rome's master poet. Join us on 14 June. @nevillholtfestival instagram.com/p/DJmZhdVKIY...
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Much looking forward to Horace's festival debut at Nevill Holt on June 14, a place of art, wine, music and country beauty of which he would absolutely have approved. Join us!
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May 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Much looking forward to Horace's festival debut at Nevill Holt on June 14, a place of art, wine, music and country beauty of which he would absolutely have approved. Join us!
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Horace would have loved his appearance with the Uptown Girl in the Daily Mail today. He had strong views (often censored but discussed in my book) on the dangers of sex with women above his station. Too much danger! @yalebooks.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Horace would have loved his appearance with the Uptown Girl in the Daily Mail today. He had strong views (often censored but discussed in my book) on the dangers of sex with women above his station. Too much danger! @yalebooks.bsky.social
Open Letters Review focuses on the poems themselves in my new life of Horace which make his 'artistic development as gripping as if readers were watching it happen in real time'. Delighted.
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Horace: Poet on a Volcano by Peter Stothard — Open Letters Review
An invigorating new biography of the great Roman poet Horace
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May 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Open Letters Review focuses on the poems themselves in my new life of Horace which make his 'artistic development as gripping as if readers were watching it happen in real time'. Delighted.
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Airmail in New York on Horace this morning. 'Vibrant and enthralling' . . 'a compelling portrait of a man and his time' . . 'will entrance' . . .'relevant today'. Thanks to Jim Kelly airmail.news/books/2025/5... @yalepress @YaleBooks
AIR MAIL Editor's Picks
This week, don't miss "The Complete Cambridge Jane Austen," edited by Janet Todd, "Sorrowful Mysteries," by Stephen Harrigan, and "Horace," by Peter Stothard.
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May 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Airmail in New York on Horace this morning. 'Vibrant and enthralling' . . 'a compelling portrait of a man and his time' . . 'will entrance' . . .'relevant today'. Thanks to Jim Kelly airmail.news/books/2025/5... @yalepress @YaleBooks
On Gabriel Zuchtriegel's first day as the first foreign born direct of Pompeii 140 professors and former curators petitioned for his removal. The new TLS has my review of his story, plus Peter Thonemann on Emily Gowers, two giants of modern classical studies. @hodderbooks.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
On Gabriel Zuchtriegel's first day as the first foreign born direct of Pompeii 140 professors and former curators petitioned for his removal. The new TLS has my review of his story, plus Peter Thonemann on Emily Gowers, two giants of modern classical studies. @hodderbooks.bsky.social
Publication day today for Horace, Poet on a Volcano, the first modern biography, pictured here with a wild member of the garlic family, his least favourite plant! @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Publication day today for Horace, Poet on a Volcano, the first modern biography, pictured here with a wild member of the garlic family, his least favourite plant! @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social