A notoriously heterogeneous poem by this author ends by describing the laughter of a girl hiding in a corner but begins with a description of the snow-covered Mount Soracte, from which the poem derives its modern nickname.
A notoriously heterogeneous poem by this author ends by describing the laughter of a girl hiding in a corner but begins with a description of the snow-covered Mount Soracte, from which the poem derives its modern nickname. Another of his poems describes the mingling of ice-cold water and crimson blood when a sacrifice of a kid goat is made at the Bandusian spring. He wrote that "even Homer nods" in another poem, which claims that "as is painting, so is" the title activity. His name is attached to a poetic form that contrasts with a similar form named for Pindar. One of this author's best known poems contains lines later adapted by Wilfred Owen, "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." For 10 points name this Roman poet of many epodes, odes, and the Ars Poetica, who coined the phrase "carpe diem."
A notoriously heterogeneous poem by this author ends by describing the laughter of a girl hiding in a corner but begins with a description of the snow-covered Mount Soracte, from which the poem derives its modern nickname.
Horace [or Quintus Horatius Flaccus]