Horace in English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horace in English write by Horace. This book was released on 1996. Horace in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Horace in English seeks to reach through translation to Roman Horace, the friend of Virgil and Maecenas, while at the same time presenting a many faceted portrait of English Horace, moralist, love poet, patriot, ironist, wit, convivial companion, everyman's poet for all occasions.
Carmina
Carmina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carmina write by Horace. This book was released on 2015-12-14. Carmina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Horace for English Readers
Horace for English Readers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horace for English Readers write by Horace. This book was released on 1903. Horace for English Readers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Epistles of Horace
The Epistles of Horace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Epistles of Horace write by Horace. This book was released on 2015-10-20. The Epistles of Horace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. My aim is to take familiar things and make Poetry of them, and do it in such a way That it looks as if it was as easy as could be For anybody to do it . . . the power of making A perfectly wonderful thing out of nothing much. --from "The Art of Poetry" When David Ferry's translation of The Odes of Horace appeared in 1997, Bernard Knox, writing in The New York Review of Books, called it "a Horace for our times." In The Epistles of Horace, Ferry has translated the work in which Horace perfected the conversational verse medium that gives his voice such dazzling immediacy, speaking in these letters with such directness, wit, and urgency to young writers, to friends, to his patron Maecenas, to Emperor Augustus himself. It is the voice of a free man, talking about how to get along in a Roman world full of temptations, opportunities, and contingencies, and how to do so with one's integrity intact. Horace's world, so unlike our own and yet so like it, comes to life in these poems. And there are also the poems--the famous "Art of Poetry" and others--about the tasks and responsibilities of the writer: truth to the demands of one's medium, fearless clear-sighted self-knowledge, and unillusioned, uncynical realism, joyfully recognizing the world for what it is. Available in ebook for the first time, this English-only edition of The Epistles of Horace includes Ferry's translation along with his introduction, notes, and glossary. "Reading these versions we feel as if the streets that Horace walked have opened onto our own" (Peter Campion, Raritan).
The Odes of Horace
The Odes of Horace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Odes of Horace write by Horace. This book was released on 2015-10-20. The Odes of Horace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Ferry, the acclaimed poet and translator of Gilgamesh, has made an inspired translation of the complete Odes of Horace, one that conveys the wit, ardor and sublimity of the original with a music of all its own. The Latin poet Horace is, along with his friend Virgil, the most celebrated of the poets of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and, with Virgil, the most influential. These marvelously constructed poems with their unswerving clarity of vision and their extraordinary range of tone and emotion have deeply affected the poetry of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Herbert, Dryden, Marvell, Pope, Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth, Frost, Larkin, Auden, and many others, in English and in other languages. This ebook edition includes only the English language translation of the Odes. As Rosanna Warren noted about Ferry's work in The Threepenny Review, "We finally have an English Horace whose rhythmical subtlety and variety do justice to the Latin poet's own inventiveness, in which emotion rises from the motion of the verse . . . To sense the achievement, one has to read the collection as a whole . . . and they can take one's breath away even as they continue breathing."
