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Horace The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
- Publication Name
- The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
- Title
- The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
- Contributor
- Sidney Alexander (Edited and translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0691004285
- EAN
- 9780691004280
- ISBN
- 9780691004280
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General, Ancient & Classical
- Release Year
- 1999
- Release Date
- 14/03/1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Series
- Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later. Horace shares with Italians of today a distinctive delight in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing the moment, and a view of religion as aesthetic experience rather than mystical exaltation--in many ways, as Alexander puts it, Horace is the quintessential Italian. The voice we hear in this graceful and carefully annotated translation is thus one that emerges with clarity and dignity from the heart of an unchanging Latin culture. Alexander is an accomplished poet, novelist, biographer, and translator who has lived in Italy for more than thirty years. Translating a poet of such variety and vitality as Horace calls on all his literary abilities.Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 bce), was born the son of a freed slave in southern rural Italy and rose to become one of the most celebrated poets in Rome and a confidante of the most powerful figures of the age, including Augustus Caesar. His poetry ranges over politics, the arts, religion, nature, philosophy, and love, reflecting both his intimacy with the high affairs of the Roman Empire and his love of a simple life in the Italian countryside. Alexander translates the diverse poems of the youthful Satires and the more mature Odes with freshness, accuracy, and charm, avoiding affectations of archaism or modernism. He responds to the challenge of rendering the complexities of Latin verse in English with literary sensitivity and a fine ear for the subtleties of poetic rhythm in both languages. This is a major translation of one of the greatest of classical poets by an acknowledged master of his craft.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691004285
ISBN-13
9780691004280
eBay Product ID (ePID)
435886
Product Key Features
Book Title
Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
20 oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
46
Lc Classification Number
Pa6394.A54 1999
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This new translation promises to be a grand adventure for the imaginations of graduates, undergraduates, and general readers. . . . -- Choice, This new translation promises to be a grand adventure for the imaginations of graduates, undergraduates, and general readers. . . ., Alexander's translations are accurate yet vigorous and fluent, avoiding both archaisms and contemporary idioms. -- Library Journal, "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 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, "This new translation promises to be a grand adventure for the imaginations of graduates, undergraduates, and general readers. . . ." -- Choice, "This new translation promises to be a grand adventure for the imaginations of graduates, undergraduates, and general readers. . . ."-- Choice, Alexander's translations are accurate yet vigorous and fluent, avoiding both archaisms and contemporary idioms., 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., "Alexander's translations are accurate yet vigorous and fluent, avoiding both archaisms and contemporary idioms."-- Library Journal, 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, "This new translation promises to be a grand adventure for the imaginations of graduates, undergraduates, and general readers." -- Choice
Table of Content
FOREWORD, by Richard Howard xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv INTRODUCTION xvii NOTE TO THE READER xxix ODES Book I 3 Book II 55 Book III 91 Book IV 151 SATIRES Book I 189 Book II 245 NOTES TO Odes 317 NOTES TO Satires 343 BIBLIOGRAPHY 353
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
98-035158
Dewey Decimal
874/.01
Intended Audience
College Audience
Series
The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
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