 However, there were few other echoes of Horace in the war period, possibly because war is not actually a major theme of Horace's work.Both W.H.Auden and Louis MacNeice began their careers as teachers of classics and both responded as poets to Horace's influence.Auden for example evoked the fragile world of the 1930s in terms echoing "Odes" , where Horace advises a friend not to let worries about frontier wars interfere with current pleasures.