The Odes of Horace (Paperback)

from chichikov

I thought of Horace as booorrriiinngg. But this translation moves and shines. I then looked at some old translations and they seemed mired and weighed down in poetic conventions of the 18th century with most meaning and association hidden away. This translation conveys a urban world of trysts, br...

from dirkjohnson

The odes get 5 stars, Charlton Griffin's reading 2 stars.

from stillatim

Just to be clear, I give Horace all the stars in the internet. I give David Ferry two of them. Horace's poems are masterpieces of concision, obliquity, delay, and obfuscation. David Ferry's version of Horace is, well, prolix, acute, direct, and transparent. In his introduction he more or less say...

from chichikov

I thought of Horace as booorrriiinngg. But this translation moves and shines. I then looked at some old translations and they seemed mired and weighed down in poetic conventions of the 18th century with most meaning and association hidden away. This translation conveys a urban world of trysts, br...

from dirkjohnson

The odes get 5 stars, Charlton Griffin's reading 2 stars.