The Epistles of Horace

The Epistles of Horace
Author: Horace
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2015-10-20
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 146689492X

My aim is to take familiar things and make Poetry of them, and do it in such a way That it looks as if it was as easy as could be For anybody to do it . . . the power of making A 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, to friends, to his patron Maecenas, to Emperor Augustus himself. It is the voice of a free man, talking about how to get along in a Roman world full of temptations, opportunities, and contingencies, and how to do so with one's integrity intact. Horace's world, so unlike our own and yet so like it, comes to life in these poems. And there are also the poems--the famous "Art of Poetry" and others--about the tasks and responsibilities of the writer: truth to the demands of one's medium, fearless clear-sighted self-knowledge, and unillusioned, uncynical realism, joyfully recognizing the world for what it is. Available in ebook for the first time, this English-only edition of The Epistles of Horace includes Ferry's translation along with his introduction, notes, and glossary. "Reading these versions we feel as if the streets that Horace walked have opened onto our own" (Peter Campion, Raritan).

The Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace. in Latin and English. with Critical Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators. by the Revd Mr. Philip Francis, ... Vol. IV. of 4; Volume 4

The Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace. in Latin and English. with Critical Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators. by the Revd Mr. Philip Francis, ... Vol. IV. of 4; Volume 4
Author: HORACE.
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-04-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385321386

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) N007315 Vol.IV of the first edition of Francis's translation of Horace, issued with Vol.III, 'The satires of Horace.' The first two volumes, 'The odes, epodes, and carmen seculare of Horace, ' were issued together in 1743. Later editions of this translation have the collective title in Vol.I 'A poetical translation of the works of Horace.' - Parallel Latin and English texts. With two final advertisement leaves. London: printed for A. Millar, 1746. [2],313, [5]p.; 8°

The Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace. in Latin and English. with Critical Notes ... by the Revd Mr. Philip Francis, ... Vol. IV. the Third Edition. of 4; Volume 4

The Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace. in Latin and English. with Critical Notes ... by the Revd Mr. Philip Francis, ... Vol. IV. the Third Edition. of 4; Volume 4
Author: HORACE.
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2018-04-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781379867975

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T042735 Parallel Latin and English texts. Intended to form the fourth volume of 'A poetical translation of the works of Horace, with the original text, and critical notes collected from his best Latin and French commentators. By the Revd Mr. Philip Francis, .. I London: printed for A. Millar, 1749. [2],267, [1]p.; 12°