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Odes: Poets
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Broader aspects of the contents of the Book of Odes are discussed in the preface to this work, which provides a Confucian view of poetry. This is presented here, followed by a few of the odes that illustrate various aspects of the human condition.
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The Odes were developed as a conscious imitation of the short lyric poetry of Greek originals. Pindar, Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus and Alcmaeon are Horace's models; his genius lay in applying these older forms to the social life of Rome in the age of Augustus.
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In 1747 Collins published Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects. The odes fall in groups. The first four (odes to Pity, Fear, Simplicity, and The Poetical Character) deal with poetry and his place in the British tradition. The next four are patriotic (including odes to Mercy and Liberty). The final four (odes to Evening, Peace, The Manners, and the Passions) in the words of Eric Rothstein offer “peace in nature . . . and in society.”[9] In this volume, Collins offers several different sorts of Ode. “Fear,” “Poetical Character,” and “Liberty” are divided in the Pindaric manner, except the Collins places the epode between the strophe and antistrophe.
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