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The Odes of Horace (Bilingual Edition)

PUBLISHER Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl (10/30/1998)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)
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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.

Now David Ferry, the acclaimed poet and translator of Gilgamesh, has made an inspired new 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.
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ISBN-13: 9780374525729
ISBN-10: 0374525722
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: Latin
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Page Count: 368
Carton Quantity: 22
Product Dimensions: 5.40 x 0.90 x 8.40 inches
Weight: 1.00 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Price on Product, Bilingual
Country of Origin: US
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Poetry | European - General
Poetry | Ancient & Classical
Dewey Decimal: 874.01
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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.

Now David Ferry, the acclaimed poet and translator of Gilgamesh, has made an inspired new 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.

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Translator: Ferry, David
David Ferry, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for his translation of "Gilgamesh," is a poet and translator who has also won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, given by the Academy of American Poets, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, given by the Library of Congress. In 2001, he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2002 he won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Ferry is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College.
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Introduction by: Ferry, David
David Ferry, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for his translation of "Gilgamesh," is a poet and translator who has also won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, given by the Academy of American Poets, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, given by the Library of Congress. In 2001, he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2002 he won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Ferry is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College.
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