The "Odes" have been considered traditionally by English-speaking scholars as purely literary works. Recent evidence by a Horatian scholar suggests they may have been intended as performance art, a Latin re-interpretation of Greek lyric song. The Roman writer Petronius, writing less than a century after Horace's death, remarked on the "curiosa felicitas" (studied spontaneity) of the "Odes" ("Satyricon" 118). The English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson declared that the "Odes" provided "jewels five-words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all Time / Sparkle for ever" ("The Princess", part II, l.355).