Horace of ancient Rome and Harry Eyres of present-day London ... Horace and Me: Life Lessons From an Ancient Poet traces their bond and affirms the relevance of lyric poetry.

Born in 65 BC, in his youth Horace moved to Rome, living as the archetypal starving young poet in the teeming slum quarter. Here he scraped a miserable living copying legal documents, burning for ...

His popularity continues today, and Horace’s poetry continues to be celebrated ... making his work as pertinent today as it was in ancient Rome.

In the timeless words of the ancient Roman poet Horace, we find a profound truth that resonates through the ages. This simple yet powerful statement, "Rule your mind or it will rule you ...

A new book by Harry Eyres, Horace and Me: Life Lessons From an Ancient Poet is both an Alain de Botton-esque philosophical guide to modern life, and an attempt to rescue the Roman poet from the ...