Horatian

Horatian, characteristic of or derived from the work of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65–8BCE), usually known as Horace. The Horatian ode, as distinct from the Pindaric ode, is homostrophic and usually private and reflective in mood: Keats's odes (1820) are English examples of this form. Horatian satire, often contrasted with the bitterness of Juvenalian satire, is a more indulgent, tolerant treatment of human inconsistencies and follies, ironically amused rather than outraged. Pope's verse satires, some of them directly modelled upon Horace's work, are generally Horatian in tone. For Horatian epistle, see epistle. See also ode, satire.