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Las odas son composiciones de carácter lírico que constituyen la obra cumbre de la lírica latina. En ella se jacta de haber sido el primero en transplantar al latín la lírica eolia en su conjunto, imitando los temas y los metros líricos griegos, sobre todo de Alceo, Safo y Anacreonte. Horacio tiene conciencia de que sus odas son lo mejor de su obra y afirma que serán más duraderas que el bronce. En las Odas el componente fundamental es el lírico. Podemos agrupar las odas en varios grupos temáticos: alabanza de Augusto, elogio de la amistad, tema filosófico y moral, el amor, y...

Interiores by Emilia Pardo Bazán, Emilia Pardo Bazán was a Galician author and scholar from Galicia. She is known for bringing naturalism to Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality, and for her role in feminist literature of her era.Her first novel, Pascual López (1879), is a simple exercise in fantasy of no remarkable promise, though it contains good descriptive passages of romance. It was followed by a more striking story, Un viaje de novios (1881), in which a discreet attempt was made to introduce into Spain the methods of French realism. The book caused a sensation ...

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