The Odes (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) - Softcover
This is a complete collection of the 103 Odes of Horace, with translations drawn from several English versions. The introduction discusses the nature of Horace's appeal. A biographical outline is given of the translators, with translations accompanied by explanatory references.
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Horace has always been one of my favourite poets, and I have often toyed with the idea of translating him.
After reading Michie s translation, however, I see that I must dismiss the idea. I do not expect to read a better one. W. H. Auden"
"Horace has always been one of my favourite poets, and I have often toyed with the idea of translating him.
After reading Michie's translation, however, I see that I must dismiss the idea. I do not expect to read a better one." --W. H. Auden
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After reading Michie s translation, however, I see that I must dismiss the idea. I do not expect to read a better one. W. H. Auden"
"Horace has always been one of my favourite poets, and I have often toyed with the idea of translating him.
After reading Michie's translation, however, I see that I must dismiss the idea. I do not expect to read a better one." --W. H. Auden
James Michie was born in 1927 and studied classics at Trinity College, Oxford. His other translations include The Poems of Catullus and Virgil's Eclogues. His Collected Poems was awarded the Hawthornden Prize. Gregson Davis is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Duke University and the author of Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse.
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- PublisherWordsworth Editions Ltd
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1853264776
- ISBN 13 9781853264771
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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