Horacianes : $b Poesies

by Miquel Costa i Llobera

"Horacianes: Poesies" by Miquel Costa i Llobera is a poetry collection published in 1906. This celebrated work consists of sixteen odes dedicated to the Latin poet Horace. Costa i Llobera adapts classical Greek and Roman meters to Catalan, using stressed and unstressed syllables to approximate ancient verse forms. The collection showcases his careful use of language and rigorous treatment of classical literary forms, demonstrating the versatility of Catalan as a literary language through noble poetic structures.