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HOME | Definition of horatian satire (HORATIAN SATIRE, Horatian satire)
  • After the Roman satirist Horace: Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. ...
    http://www.nku.edu/~rkdrury/422/satire_terms.html

  • In general, a gentler, more good humored and sympathetic kind of satire, somewhat tolerant of human folly even while laughing at it. Named after the poet Horace, whose satire epitomized it. Horatian satire tends to ridicule human folly in general or by type rather than attack specific persons. ...
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