The Forest and The Trees: Pattern and Meaning in Horace, Odes 1. (Andrew Fenton). A problem this article doesn’t address is that it’s not just the plants that are mentioned with so much variety in the first book of odes, but also the mountains, the bodies of water, and the winds — there is a lot more variety in the first book in general.
On the other hand, I very much liked Fenton’s discussion of the arbol that nearly killed Horace. Horace’s lack of specificity in naming the tree really is quite striking and feels intentional (like it is simply ‘that tree.’)
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