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Horace: Odes I: Carpe Diem: Horace Bk.1
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Product Description
Horace is the greatest Latin lyric poet, and certainly the most influential. This book provides a new translation of the famous first book of Odes which is both accurate and readable, supported by a basic commentary for students showing how the poems work. The book includes the Oxford Classical Text edition of the Latin text.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #487419 in Books
- Published on: 1995-08-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
David West takes a refreshing approach insofar as academic questions are sobered by looking at how the poems work as poems. (Quadrant No.405 )
West, long recognized as an adept interpreter of the poet, includes a useful translation in this volume. The notes contain insightful observations on the elements of a Horatian ode ... his book should not fail to instruct and delight even the most sophisticated reader of Horace. (Religious Studies Review )
Professor West takes us closer to understanding his ancient master works. This may not be fashionable literary theory. It is better than that: to help us to understand a great poem is an act of creative poetry itself. (The Times )
About the Author
Editor of Virgil: The Aeneid (Pengiun Classics, 1991), and author of Reading Horace (Edinburgh UP, 1967), The Imagery and Poetry of Lucretius (Edinburgh UP, 1969, reprint Bristol CP, 1994)
