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| Genre/Form: | Translations into English Poetry |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Horace. Complete Odes and Satires of Horace. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607133630 |
| Named Person: | Horace; Horace |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Horace.; Sidney Alexander |
| ISBN: | 0691004277 9780691004273 0691004285 9780691004280 |
| OCLC Number: | 39539175 |
| Description: | xxvii, 353 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Odes: Book I -- Book II -- Book III -- Book IV -- Satires: Book I -- Book II -- Notes to Odes -- Notes to Satires. |
| Series Title: | Lockert library of poetry in translation. |
| Other Titles: | Carmina. |
| Responsibility: | translated, with introduction and notes by Sidney Alexander ; with a foreword by Richard Howard. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. Born the son of a freed slave in southern rural Italy, he rose to become one of the most celebrated poets in Rome. This book spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later.
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This new translation promises to be a grand adventure for the imaginations of graduates, undergraduates, and general readers... Choice Alexander's translations of the satires are unusually readable... They project an image of the poet as a Socratic loner, edgy, irritable, ultimately at odds with the city he loves... But having rendered the satires and the odes in one go, Alexander allows us glimpses of a more subtle Horace. -- Tom D'Evelyn The Boston Book Review Alexander's translations are accurate yet vigorous and fluent, avoiding both archaisms and contemporary idioms. Library Journal Read more...
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