The Epistles of Horace
My aim is to take familiar things and makePoetry of them, and do it in such a wayThat it looks as if it was as easy as could beFor anybody to do it . . . the power of makingA 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,…
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Weitere Autoren: Ferry, David (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4668-9492-1
- EAN: 9781466894921
- Produktnummer: 22456844
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 390 KB
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Horace; Translated by David Ferry; Introduction and notes by the author
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