tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post288589081854493161..comments2024-03-23T20:37:37.891-07:00Comments on First Known When Lost: WolvesStephen Pentzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-42912659025114907592013-09-12T11:28:00.323-07:002013-09-12T11:28:00.323-07:00Anonymous: thank you very much for that anecdote. ...Anonymous: thank you very much for that anecdote. It fits well. Highet's book has been sitting on my shelf -- unread, I'm ashamed to say -- for years. Last year, a long-time friend recommended it to me, and I resolved to read it. Alas, I didn't. Your comment may at last tip the scale!<br /><br />Thanks again.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-78591984629609416382013-09-12T08:35:32.648-07:002013-09-12T08:35:32.648-07:00In Gilbert HIghet's "Poets In A Landscape...In Gilbert HIghet's "Poets In A Landscape," a wonderful book about the classical Roman poets and the Italy they lived in (the book has some marvelous photographs), beginning with Catullus and ending with Juvenal, Highet's mentions that one day while Horace was wandering about his Sabine farm, a gift from his patron Maecenas, he encountered a wolf, a literal one:<br /><br />" . . . and once when he [Horace] was alone and unarmed, he met a wolf in the forest. He was composing poetry--one of the 'Odes--and with rare good taste the wolf forbore to interrupt him." <br /><br />Chalk up a rare win for poetry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com