Satire
This paper concentrates on the central texts of Roman hexameter satire, one of the few poetic genres in Latin where there was no Greek precedent, and on the central representatives of verse satire in English.
The prescribed texts are: Horace, Satires Book 1.1, 4-6, 9-10, and Book 2.1,6; Persius Satires 1 and 5; Juvenal Satires 1,3,6 and 10; the satires of Wyatt, Donne, Marston, Dryden, Johnson and Pope.
There will be an optional commentary question with passages from Juvenal, Satires 1,3,6 and 10.
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