Odes (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) - Softcover

Horace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 029929854X ISBN 13: 9780299298548

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014

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An unconventional and boldly original work. David Mulroy, translator of Oedipus Rex " Horace is the quintessential lyric poet of the Silver Age, the poet of wit, urbanity, sophistication, and a unique balance of irony and ingenuous passion. David Slavitt is just such a writer in American English. He has given us in this translation an experience equivalent to the excitement of reading Horace in Latin. Daniel Mark Epstein, translator of The Bacchae " "An unconventional and boldly original work."--David Mulroy, translator of "Oedipus Rex" "Horace is the quintessential lyric poet of the Silver Age, the poet of wit, urbanity, sophistication, and a unique balance of irony and ingenuous passion. David Slavitt is just such a writer in American English. He has given us in this translation an experience equivalent to the excitement of reading Horace in Latin."--Daniel Mark Epstein, translator of "The Bacchae"

Reseña del editor:

The Odes of Horace are a treasure of Western civilization, and this new English translation is a lively rendition by one of the prominent poet-translators of our own time, David R. Slavitt. Horace was one of the great poets of Rome's Augustan age, benefiting (as did fellow poet Vergil) from the friendship of the powerful statesman and cultural patron Maecenas. These Odes, which take as their formal models Greek poems of the seventh century BCE-especially the work of Sappho and Alcaeus-are the observations of a wry, subtle mind on events and occasions of everyday life. At first reading, they are modest works but build toward a comprehensive attitude that might fairly be called a philosophy. Charming, shrewd, and intimate, the voice of the Odes is that of a sociable wise man talking amusingly but candidly to admiring friends. This edition is also notable for Slavitt's extensive notes and commentary about the art of translation. He presents the problems he encountered in making the translation, discussing possible solutions and the choices he made among them. The effect of the notes is to bring the reader even closer to the original Latin and to understand better how to gauge the distance between the two languages.

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• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 029929854X
• ISBN 13: 9780299298548
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168
• Herausgeber: Slavitt David R.