Synopsis
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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Review
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
About the Author
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."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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