Horace was particularly relevant in the 18th century, specially in relation to literary
precepts. Some of the genres cultivated by this poet were later assimilated by some writers of
the 18th century. In this paper I am trying to study the influence of one ot those genres, the
verse epistle, on an author from the Canary Island, Tomás de Iriarte, who was famous for
his literary fables as well as for his qualities as a humanist.