New Criterion, April 1st, 2003
It is difficult not to write satire.--Juvenal, on the Rome of his day
J'ai en ce moment une forte rage de Juvenal. Quel style! quel style! --Flaubert, in a letter of 1853
Satire, if it is to do any good and not cause immeasurable harm, must be firmly based on a consistent ethical view of life.--Kierkegaard, The Present Age
Probably the most politically incorrect Roman poet, certainly the most caustic, was the satirist Decimus Junius Juvenalis--Juvenal to us. We expect satirists to expose hypocrisy, injustice, corruption. Juvenal does this. We also expect satirists to exaggerate, to carica...
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