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This reader contains 203 lines of Latin selections from Horace (Satire 1.4, 103-126; 1.6, 70-92; Odes 1.5; 1.23; 1.11; 3.9; 2.10; 1.37; 1.9; 3.30). It is designed for students moving from elementary or intermediate Latin into reading the authentic Latin of Horace. Introductory materials include an overview of the life and work of Horace, bibliography, and description of Horatian meters.

Latin selections are accompanied by pre-reading materials, grammatical exercises, vocabulary notes, notes to assist reading comprehension, and other reading aids. Appendices on grammar and figures of speech, and a pull-out vocabulary of words appearing frequently in Horace round out the book's innovative features.

Special Features

* pre-reading materials help students understand underlying cultural and literary concepts
* short explanations of grammatical and syntactical usage, with exercises
* first version of the Latin text with transitional aids: implied words in parentheses, difficult noun-adjective pairings in different fonts, words re-ordered to facilitate comprehension
* complete vocabulary and grammatical notes on facing pages
* post-reading materials encourage appreciation of Horace's style and reflection on what has been read
* pull-out vocabulary of Latin words not annotated
* second version of Latin text in without transitional aids, but with notes

For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar. We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books.

Some of the areas we publish in include:

Selections From The Aeneid
Latin Grammar & Pronunciation
Greek Grammar & Pronunciation
Texts Supporting Wheelock's Latin
Classical author workbooks: Vergil, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, Cicero
Vocabulary Cards For AP Selections: Vergil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace
Greek Mythology
Greek Lexicon
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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not what's advertised
This is a collection of snippets of various poets, NOT WORKS OF HORACE.
You will feel cheated if you thought that is what you were buying. ... Read more

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Horace was a talented and innovative literary craftsman whose lyrics reveal an extraordinary facility and playfulness with the Latin language. Informed by the latest in Horatian scholarship, Horace Selected Odes and Satire 1.9 presents the twenty odes and one satire that are required reading for the AP Latin Literature Exam. The format includes line-by-line notes and vocabulary and a variety of enhancements, making it easily accessible to both teachers and students.

Also available:

Why Horace?: A Collection of Interpretive Essays - ISBN 0865164347
Horace: Selected Odes and Satire - ISBN 0865166080

For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar. We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books.

Some of the areas we publish in include:

Selections From The Aeneid
Latin Grammar & Pronunciation
Greek Grammar & Pronunciation
Texts Supporting Wheelock's Latin
Classical author workbooks: Vergil, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, Cicero
Vocabulary Cards For AP Selections: Vergil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace
Greek Mythology
Greek Lexicon
Slovak Culture And History ... Read more

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Inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost, the writings ofHorace and Persius have had a powerful influence on later Western literature. The Satires of Persius are highly idiosyncratic, containing a courageous attack on the poetry and morals of his wealthy contemporaries—even the ruling emperor, Nero. The Satires of Horace, written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment ofAugustus’s regime, provide an amusing treatment of men’s perennial enslavement to money, power, glory, and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet’s friends, deals with the problem of achieving contentment amid the complexities of urban life, while Epistles II and the Ars Poetica discuss Latin poetry—its history and social functions, and the craft required for its success. ... Read more

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (65 BC-8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. He was the son of a freedman, but he himself was born free. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, he joined the army, serving under the generalship of Brutus. He fought as a staff officer in the Battle of Philippi. Horace is generally considered by classicists to be one of the greatest Latin poets. He wrote many Latin phrases that remain in use including Carpe Diem "seize the day", Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country", and aurea mediocritas "golden mean". His works are written in Greek metres, from the hexameter, which was relatively easy to adapt to Latin, to the more complex measures used in the Odes. Amongst his other works are The Art of Poetry an Epistle to the Pisos (1680), The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry (1966), The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace and The Works of Horace. ... Read more

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A masterpiece of Western culture, this is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation, turns his own poetic gifts toward a deft reconstruction of Ovid's ancient themes.

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"Now I shall tell you of things that change..."
While there are several excellent translations of Ovid's masterpiece, this one by Horace Gregory stands out for its vivid & vigorous power. Far more than a mere retelling of the classic myths, it brings them to full-blooded life, brilliant & sharp as a bronze sword brandished in the blazing sun. From the emergence of Creation from Chaos, to the apotheosis of his patron Augustus Caesar, Ovid spins an enthralling tapestry of intertwining tales, rich with color & detail.

But let the poet & his translator speak for themselves:

She turned her gaze across a stone-ribbed waste,
And there was Famine squatted to the ground,
Her claws and teeth tearing stray shreds of grass,
Hair lank, eyes fallen in, and face the colour
Of dead moonlight, lips grey, and her arched neck
Was raw with open sores; skin stretched so thin
One saw her vitals through it, and thighbones
Came curving outward over empty loins,
And where her belly should have been was nothing.
Her breasts (perhaps her ribs) clung to her spine;
Her wasted body made joints monstrous --
Her knees and ankles big as cancerous tumours.

Or, in a completely different tone:

And it is where dream-haunted poppies grow,
Hanging their heads above wet ferns and grasses,
Where mossy herbs distill sleep-gathering wines,
Breathing their fragrance to the night-filled land,
And weighted eyelids close each day to darkness.
Those chambers have no doors, no hinges turning;
No watchman calls the hour to waken Sleep.
There in the innermost chamber of dark halls,
Draped in black velvet, stands the Sleeper's bed.
The god of Sleep, stretched on the coverlet,
Lies there, his figure languourous and long.
Around him drift the shapes of empty dreams,
As many images as ears of grain in autumn,
As leaves on trees, as sands along the beach.

Well, either this makes you want to read more, or it doesn't. My own words certainly can't improve on Ovid's! But for anyone who wants more than just a Cliff Notes version of classic myth, this is a true work of art -- most highly recommended! ... Read more

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Horace's House
This is a serious coffee table book whose contents quite knowledgeably describe, in great detail, the extent and meaning of the collection assembled by the 18th century's Horace Walpole for his gothic fantasy residence. It has many lovely illustrations and pictures.

For those who hanker to know more about the famous English house, Strawberry Hill and/or the efforts of Walpole in assembling his varied collection of artistic and historical this and that, this book would be an excellent purchase.

However, the ordinary reader will probably be safe in not buying-- given the book's deep scholarly articles, a distant subject matter, and steep price.
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Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman. Yet schools did not become the efficient, egalitarian, and high-quality educational institutions these reformers envisioned. Indeed, the unintended consequences of their legacies shaped today’s flawed educational system, in which political control of stagnant American schools has shifted away from families and communities to larger, more centralized entities—initially to bigger districts and eventually to control by states, courts, and the federal government.

Peterson’s tales help to explain how nation building, progressive education, the civil rights movement, unionization, legalization, special education, bilingual teaching, accountability, vouchers, charters, and homeschooling have, each in a different way, set the stage for a new era in American education.

Now, under the impact of rising cost, coupled with the possibilities unleashed by technological innovation, schooling may be transformed through virtual learning. The result could be a personalized, customized system of education in which families have greater choice and control over their children’s education than at any time since our nation was founded.

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Horace the Bear
I would get this book at the library as often as possible when I was a kid in England.My sister gave me a copy last year so now I have my very own!Thirty years later the whole family can still recite the story without the book!

A wonderful story!
I grew up with this book as did the generation before me. It is so much fun to read aloud with the kids, a pity it is now out of print. If you can find it, get it!

I Can't Believe This is a Real Book!
"What do you suppose has happened!"
"I don't know.What has happened?"
"Horace has eaten grandmother."


My grandfather used to tell me this story.Didn't read it.Just told it to me and to my brother.We always thought that it was a joke (because of the punchline)that he had heard somewhere.We even have him on tape telling the story.The little research I've turned up on it, however, suggests that it's an anti-slavery tract.Not sure why.The family takes Horace the Bear in as a pet and can't bear to part with him, even as he starts eating each family member in turn.

The refrain is "Horace has eaten Grandma" "Then I shall have to kill Horace," said Father.But Mother and Paul and Little Lulu cried and carried on so that Father didn't have the heart to do it.And the next day Father went hunting."And the scene is repeated again and again until there is only father and Horace who says "I have eaten little Lulu".

And the next day...HORACE goes hunting.

Now, if this is an antislavery tract, was author Coats saying we were right to be fearful?That "savages" (and I use the term advisedly: I do not mean that Africans are savages) will kill their owners?In other words, don't enslave that which is wild because it will kill you?In which case, that suggests this is also a RACIST tract...kinda sorta...in any case, my Grampy would spin in his grave if he knew he was telling us an allegorical screed.

Ah well.I think I will prefer to think fondly of the story as it was told to me on my grandfather's knee and imagine it as a funny, macabre joke. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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Gee, let me think...
Once AGAIN, no line breaks. Do people get paid to ruin all this awesome poetry? Someone needs their kneecaps broken for desecrating poetry on the scale that they have. At leas half of the files I've gotten my hands on have no line breaks. The fact that they are free is no excuse. I'm beginning to feel wronged by this. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Old translation
You get what you pay for here. The text is the very old Conington translation, and the verse is formatted as prose. Most disappointing. ... Read more

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The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money - dancing the hours away for cash. But the underside of that craze was filled with a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms. A lurid tale of dancing and desperation: Horace McCoy's classic American novel captures the dark side of the 1930s. ... Read more

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Sympathetic and Human
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy is really one of the great overlooked American novellas. It's the story of two down-on-their luck actors in Hollywood during the Great Depression--Gloria who, abused her entire life, has lost almost all hope for a happy and meaningful life and the narrator who still holds to his dreams. Together, the starving couple enters a marathon dance contest for the promise of steady meals (the contest strings on for months), for exposure to the viewing crowd of Hollywood execs, and the possibility of a payday at the end. In the months that follow, the couple is exposed to the abuse and absurdity of the meaningless, dehumanizing, ongoing dance, and both are changed.

It's a bleak vision. A lot of people have commented upon the existentialist, absurdist vision of the book, and there's a lot to that (the French existentialists loved this novel). What sticks out to me about the novel are its strong attacks on the exploitative actions of American economic, social, and religious institutions. The satire is bitter and insightful.

And it's a phenomenally well-written story. The characterizations are sharp, if spare. The humor, too, is acerbic and dark. The novel's structure (which uses a prison sentence that is gradually being pronounced over the course of the novel) lends the novel a fatalistic aura. And although the story is undoubtedly dark, it's sympathetic and human. This is a quick read, not to be missed.

Classic dark gem
Grim, fascinating LA period piece. Lurid American spectacle. Authentic slice of the Depression.Tight prose, driving plot line; straight-up noir without the froth.Couldn't put it down.Not perfect, but pretty close.4.5 stars.

1880 with a brief stopover in 1935
Am about three hundred pages into The Karamazov Brothers, the fantastically huge and so far bloody bleeding brilliant book by Fyodor whatshisnamsky. I'm right at the bit where Ivan and Alyosha are having lunch and Ivan speaks of his desire to return his ticket to God. This whole electrifying scene includes a chapter called The Grand Inquisitor which is it seems a big favourite with a lot of readers. I can't wait to read it myself. I was a little unsure when starting this novel, not knowing a single dang thing about it, plus there's the sheer bleddy heft of the beast, but oboy am I glad I did. As I say I'm only about a third of the way in--it's over 900 pages!--but I'm honestly hooked in a headlock now. I do believe it was later nineteenth-century novels such as this one that that notable wet Henry James blithely dismissed as loose baggy monsters. Henry James, wha'? The Master. Ha! Talk about smug. What this unctuous clown lacked in preening self-regard he more than made up for in the most gruesome embroidery. Beloved of the civilised set apparently. They can have him and welcome. The Portait of a Lady has its moments I suppose but The Golden Bowl? Sick bag please. I finished it just to bone up on my by now vigorous contempt for this big girl's blouse with the stiff upper forehead. To be extra sure I also read The Wings of the Dove and now I can assure you I am extra sure. Delicacy was never so ponderously contrived. Here's what The Wings of the Dove made me stand up and shout: Suffering Christ, pull the farking trigger already! Which reminds me: so there I am just about to read The Grand Inquisitor in Karmazov when totally by accident in bed last night I pick up and start reading They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and coz it's only 121 pages long I stayed up and finished it. It's been at my bedside for well over a year now, maybe even two years, but I only seemed to notice it last night. I first read Horses ages ago but hurried through it because it's so short. I hurried through it last night too but now only because I couldn't get enough of how infernally good it was. What a thrill it is to dig this hard little diamond in the rough. The opening bit where Robert meets Gloria and he takes her to a park he likes:

"I was glad she wanted to go to the park. It was always nice there. It was a fine place to sit. It was very small, only one block square, but it was very dark and very quiet and filled with dense shrubbery. All around it palm trees grew up, fifty, sixty feet tall, suddenly tufted at the top. Once you entered the park you had the illusion of security. I often imagined they were sentries wearing grotesque helmets: my own private sentries, standing guard over my own private island . . ."

Doesn't that make you lie there in bed just stupefied? It did me. The guy's voice in this dark and fearsome story is surprisingly tender at times, honest to God too and achingly human right to the bitter end. Gloria is a piece of work and no mistake, her line "The cheese is beginning to bind" just one of her many memorable put-downs. Yup, Robert has his hands full with this tough little cookie--he asks her in comical exasperation at one point: "Isn't there something I can talk about that won't remind you that you wish you were dead?" Smashing stuff. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is for my dosh at least a rare and minor miracle. A small good thing I guess you could quote. In any case, a pitch-perfect parable and then some. I don't think I ever remember reading two books at the same time but this Depression-era humdinger just sort of popped up in the middle of the big Dostoevsky and I'm mighty mindblown it did and as a matter of fact Horses is even curiously complementary in tone when read in tandem with the fervent outpourings of yer man Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov. Horace McCoy, eh? I own a stuffed dog named Horace. No kidding, he wears glasses, just like me. It's funny to see him without his goggles now, his eyes look impossibly small, like Milhouse Van Houton's. It never fails to crack me up. My old lady seems to think I named him after Horace Walpole but I keep telling her Rumpole not Walpole but she refuses to listen and turns up the volume on the telly whenever I speak. Sigh. But my point here though is that I'd be just as well pleased I think if Horace had in fact been named after Horace McCoy. Yup, this dude really is the dog's bollocks in my book. Right then, I'm off to the Spanish Inquisition.

A classic that could have been written today
Recent acquaintances Robert and Gloria enter a marathon dance competition as partners in an attempt to win a much-needed $1000 prize.During the grueling competition, Robert sees a much different side of Gloria:she has a deep sense of hopelessness, finds living painful, and feels she is going nowhere.The physical toll the dance marathon takes combined with the humiliating treatment and acts of violence they witness as other competetors crack only reinforce Gloria's willingness to die.Ultimately, Robert helps her along the way.

Though set during the time of the depression, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is very relevent to today.The public spectacle of the marathon dance competition in which contestants trade their dignity for cash mirrors today's reality television shows.At one point in the story another couple is asked to get married during the competition to drum up publicity..... Fox reality show, anyone?The novel is brief and concisely written, yet will keep you thinking about it for much longer than you spent reading it.

"I bet you are glad to get that kind of air," I said to my lungs
I found this little novel in, of all places, a collection of American noir, but it's much more akin to Nathanael West's melancholy and surreal downers about Hollywood's fringe folk. McCoy uses the dance marathon to lay bare the cattle-call existence of these people, and if his goal was to show how much the lifestyle blew, all I can say is, mission accomplished. The month-plus that the contestants spend inside the dance hall--perched on a pier, with the Pacific heaving beneath them 24/7--is incredibly vivid. McCoy does a wonderful job on this end, providing lots of good lived-in detail. I particularly like the quick, rather meaningless visits to the hall by various movie starlets, and the promoter's offer to split the prize money among all the couples, just after he's blackjacked a participant half to death. There's a fine interlude in which the hero follows a girl outside for a quick hit of sunlight; the scene might have been more effective if placed later in the book, and it strangely carries little practical weight in the larger story, but it is that crucial idyll--a glimpse of something better--in what is otherwise a nightmare.

Other than penning *the* dance-marathon novel (Iguess somebody had to do it), McCoy's goal seems to be to capture the fatalistic, wasted woman that is personified by the hero's dance partner, Gloria. Maybe this sort of person somehow haunted McCoy, I don't know; certainly he sees her as tragic. For me, Gloria's character does not deepen over the course of the book, and worse, there's nothing inevitable about the hero shooting her dead in the rather abrupt climax. (I'm not giving anything away here, by the way--fragments of the judge's death sentence, in REALLY BIG TYPE, punctuate each of the chapters.) In short, the author lost his poise, and his tragedy ends up heavy-handed. The environment McCoy evokes, however, might haunt your dreams. This book is unlike any other. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Architect Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938) is well known for the wide range of residential, commercial, and civic structures he designed in and around Philadelphia. His works can be found along Old York Road and the Main Line, as well as in Philadelphia and Springfield Township, Montgomery County. During the American renaissance in architecture, Trumbauer masterfully interpreted the classical styles, designing many of the area’s most notable structures. Captured in stunning exterior and interior photographs, The Philadelphia Area Architecture of Horace Trumbauer highlights the architect’s most significant works, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Keswick Theatre, the Widener Building, Whitemarsh Hall, Lynnewood Hall, and Ardrossan. ... Read more

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Read every page!
Having been in the Philadelphia area all my life, and been fascinated with large estates for almost as long, this was interesting to realize how many of the mansions I know of, are Trumbauer designs.I was lucky enough to see some of them in their heyday and saddened to see some of them in their demise.Sorry to say, many are gone and a few more are on their way out.No one can maintain that lifestyle anymore (especially in today's economy).
These "Images of America" books are a window to the past we will never see, to this extent, again.

GILDED AGE PHILLY
I've always liked the Image of America series, it chronicles everything from the most obscure subjects to the most iconic.What really resonates with me are the archieval black and white images, they must be culled from dust laden old liberies, the text though hardly scholarly is informative none the less.These are short, simple books, but for what they are, they are excellent.This is one of the best of the series, Trumbauer was a master of the classic venacular in architecture, he designed some of the most spectacular houses of the Gilded Age, Richard Morris Hunt and Stanford White get more press, but the unheralded Trumbauer is their equal.If you have an interest in Gilded Age Splendor or Philadelphia history than I can image you not getting something out of this book. ... Read more

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They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when--as has usually been the case--a single translator ventures to maneuver through Horace's infinite variety. Now for the first time, leading poets from America, England, and Ireland have collaborated to bring all 103 odes into English in a series of new translations that dazzle as poems while also illuminating the imagination of one of literary history's towering figures.

The thirty-five contemporary poets assembled in this outstanding volume include nine winners of the Pulitzer prize for poetry as well as four former Poet Laureates. Their translations, while faithful to the Latin, elegantly dramatize how the poets, each in his or her own way, have engaged Horace in a spirited encounter across time.

Each of the odes now has a distinct voice, and Horace's poetic achievement has at last been revealed in all its mercurial majesty. In his introduction, J. D. McClatchy, the volume's editor and one of the translators, reflects on the meaning of Horace through the ages and relates how a poet who began as a cynical satirist went on to write the odes. For the connoisseur, the original texts appear on facing pages allowing Horace's ingenuity to be fully appreciated. For the general reader, these new translations--all of them commissioned for this book--will be an exhilarating tour of the best poets writing today and of the work of Horace, long obscured and now freshly minted.

The contributors are Robert Bly, Eavan Boland, Robert Creeley, Dick Davis, Mark Doty, Alice Fulton, Debora Greger, Linda Gregerson, Rachel Hadas, Donald Hall, Robert Hass, Anthony Hecht, Daryl Hine, John Hollander, Richard Howard, John Kinsella, Carolyn Kizer, James Lasdun, J. D. McClatchy, Heather McHugh, W. S. Mervin, Paul Muldoon, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Marie Ponsot, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, Ellen Bryantr Voigt, David Wagoner, Rosanna Warren, Richard Wilbur, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, and Stephen Yenser. ... Read more

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Marvellous collection
This collection of creative translations by some of the best of contempory poets is marvellous. For those of us who are somewhat Latin-challenged, the Latin on facing pages is very helpful.

Just wonderful
If you love poetry, treat yourself to this spelendid collection. Horace's Latin is too difficult for most of us whose high school education is distant. These translations are never less than readable and often beautiful. This may be a book that reminds us of why Horace has been read and loved for two thousand years.

a good commentary---misleadingly presented by Amazon
Kenneth Quinn's edition of Horace's odes is the best edition and commentary in print aimed at undergraduate-level classes.I have taught it myself a number of times over the years and have found it perfectly acceptable.What I want to protest is Amazon's habit of pasting faulty information onto its books' websites.For instance, when one clicks on Quinn's edition of Horace, one gets a web-page that offers a bit of the translation of the first ode, some "editorial reviews," and one reader review---all of which refer not to Quinn's edition and commentary but to J.D. McClatchy's "Horace: The Odes: New Translations of Contemporary Poets."I have often noticed that when one clicks on a particular translation of, say, Homer or Vergil, the Amazon site will shower one with blurbs and reader reviews of some *other* translation, a fact that can easily confuse the unwary. In this case, a prospective reader who wants to know more about a particular edition (i.e. Latin text, with no translation) and commentary of Horace is being treated to all sorts of information about a very different bird entitely: a *translation* of the odes.This is getting silly.Please fix this, Amazon!

Horace in the "Chaotic Age"
This is one of the finest translations of Horace ever compiled, all done by modern poets.Each translation seem done with care, more for the spirit of the poem than its transliterative meaning. The method of approaching Horace, by distributing the odes among some forty poets, keeps the timeless beauty of his poetry fresh. This is also a bilingual edition of Horace, which is an indispensable condition.Harold Bloom concurs that this is the best English translation of Horace's Odes. ... Read more

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Horace (65-8 bc) was one of the greatest poets of the Golden or Augustan age of Latin literature, a master of precision and irony who brilliantly transformed early Greek iambic and lyric poetry into sophisticated Latin verse of outstanding beauty. Offering allusive and exquisitely crafted insights into the brief joys of the present and the uncertain nature of the future, his Odes and Epodes explore such diverse themes as the virtues of pastoral life, the joys of wine, friendship and love, and the poet's personal anguish following Brutus' defeat at the battle of Phillipi. Ranging from subtle and tender hymns to the gods to bawdy celebrations of human passions, they remain among the most influential of all poems, inspiring poets from the Roman era to the European Renaissance, the Enlightenment and beyond. ... Read more

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offensive translation
I am sickened to have received a translation of Quid Tibi Vis that includes the infamous "N" word. This word choice is illogical and crude. I feel betrayed by the translator and the publisher. It will be a long time before I feel I can trust Penguin's books again.

Beautiful translation
Horace is one of the greatest and most influential poets in history, and surely a "must-read" for students and afficianados of poetry or the ancient world.In this Penguin edition we have a beautiful translation by W.G. Shepherd.I don't have any Latin myself, so I cannot speak to the accuracy of the translation, but I find Shepherd much more beautiful to read than the David West translation put out by Oxford World's Classics.The West is probably more straightforward and easy to understand, however.I would be interested to hear what other people who have read both have to say. ... Read more

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This book provides the Latin text (from the Oxford Classical Text series) of the second book of Horace's masterpiece together with a translation that tries to adhere closely to the Latin while capturing the flavor of the original.Included is a helpful commentary, making the book accessible not only to students but to lovers of classical poetry. ... Read more