Back to Horace

C.S. Lewis, letter to his brother Warren (Dec. 3, 1939): After years of estrangement I found myself this week going back to Horace, who has at least this advantage that a single ode makes just the right length of reading for the odd five minutes before a pupil appears, or between the last pupil and dinner. I suppose the first lines would still wake in you as they do in me a flood of reminiscence—Solvitur acris hiems—O fons Bandusiae—Vides ut alta stet nive candidum: and even the first lines of odes one never read at school such as Cum tu Lydia Telphi [sic, read Telephi].