Ovid and Horace (First Semester English Honours FYUP, University of Delhi). l Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book III: Bacchus, Book IV: Pyramus and Thisbe and Book VI: Philomela) l Horace’s Satires and Epistles, Book I, Satire 4. l Horace’s Ars Poetica (Background Reading) This critical study explores and examines the prescribed texts and tackles the various critical and textual problems arising therefrom. Shakti Batra has been Vice-principal, Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi), has also taught at the Kabul University and the University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.