Be sweet, be useful, and even be true
It seems Horace wanted to fulfill this injunction, intending his poems to be ‘helpers of humanity’.
Perhaps another reason his...
The stuff of wine
Harry Eyres is a poet and a vintner, and his book on Horace is a delight that will be reviewed...
Of wine and poetry
Here we have a poet and a vintner who connects the magic between wine and poetry. Wine can be poetic...
On dry humour
This evokes oak paneled rooms in ancient colleges, and the quiet clinking of glasses interspersed with the odd guffaw.
‘A...
Mercury as maestro
I love this depiction of Mercury as a gold-baton waving maestro easing our passage. May he play you a world-embracing symphony.
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These Italian hills…
Though I’d jig a hornpipe if I saw one, I love this vivid viper of glass-green, and can imagine cooling...
Freedom gained?
What is freedom? Options? Room for manoeuvre? Time? Carte blanche and blank cheques? Absence of censorship? Self-mastery? Purpose?
Recently I’ve...
Mind the (heart-shaped) gap
Ah, heart-shaped gaps! How many people walk around with these, whether in their personal, professional, cultural or spiritual life? May...
Wine and humility
Horace, it seems, drank humble wine and was himself a humble man. I loved this use of wine as an...
Horace’s idyll
Horace wrote the original script of all our Tuscan dreams of sun-opened flowers and hilltop villas.
‘O you who rejoice...
Of words, wording and eternity
Part of my blogophyte journey has been to learn about some of the technical workings of the online world, among...
Definitions of philosophy II
I read and think quite a bit. However, when it comes to Western philosophy, it has always felt like a...
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