Product Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's 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 world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!Amazon.com Review
David Ferry's The Odes of Horace represents the first trulydistinguished translation of the complete odes into the American idiom. Thetranslator has managed toretain the poet's moral tone while purging any taint of sententiousness.How? By recasting the structure of "Carpe Diem," for example, he gives thisfamiliar poem a power one would have not thought possible. Ferry evenmanages a Latin-English rhyme at the end, by shifting the position of theaddressee's name: "Leuconoe-- / Hold on to the day."

Ferry's Horace is always a specific personality, with his own identity,background, and attitude. Yet he is also a conduit of history. Turning to"Delicta maiorum immeritus lues..." (which Ferry straightforwardlycalls "To the Romans"), we are plunged into a devastating meditation on theimperium. At this point, of course, it's commonplace to point outsimilarities between the American empire and that of ancient Rome. But thistranslation gives us a feeling for just how contemporary Horace really is.The best example would probably be "To Dellius":

Dellius, don't be
Too unrestrainedly joyful in good fortune.
You are going to die.

It doesn't matter at all whether you spend
Your days and nights in sorrow,
Or, on the other hand, in holiday pleasure.
Drinking Falernian wine

Of an excellent vintage year, on the river bank.

Customer Reviews (6)

Middle of the road translation
I bought this at the same time as Michie's translation and prefer the latter.Ferry does a decent job of capturing the simplest level of the poems readably and easily, but the subtlety and deeper levels of the originals seem to be missing.

For someone wanting the Latin texts, however, this book might be a good buy, since the poems are attractively presented, each starting on a fresh page, in a pleasant typeface.

I wanted to like this but . . .
I wanted to like this translation after all the nice things that D.S. Carne-Ross said about it in the useful and enjoyable "Horace in English." But this is a translation that is made more for image-by-image accuracy than for the ear. Often you read Ferry describing the right word rather than saying it. (Phrases like "too unrestrainedly joyful in good fortune" read like a dictionary entries.) In the difficult-to-render i.5 he ends up phrasing things like Yoda - "Hapless are they enamored of that beauty." Too academic are they who write as this one.

There IS a better translation of Horace out there. . .
David Ferry's translation is simply undeservedly popular and is absolutely NOT the best Horace in English currently in print!

I defy anyone to find Ferry's Horace superior to the wonderfully readable translation done recently by Sidney Alexander and published in Princeton University Press's Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation.Richard Howard, translator extraordinaire himself, has written a short Preface for the volume, in which he compares a passage from Alexander's work to other versions of the same passage done by Pound, Michie, and Burton Raffel, and Howard justly judges that Alexander's is the "far superior text."

Ferry's language is too often simply muddled, the syntax unclear.Do yourself a great favor, buy the Sidney Alexander translation, and you'll be rewarded with a vastly more enjoyable reading experience!

Uncommon Poems of the Commonplace
No doubt that a command of Greek and Roman mythology adds immeasurably to the enjoyment of Horace's Odes but in many cases the context explains the reference. Horace's commonplace themes are deeply imbedded in our culture and he illuminates them with uncommon insight and poetry: love is cruel, seize the day, greed wants more, death equalizes, happy the one who wants nothing, don't be beguiled by past success, luck changes, accept your place, beauty fades, death comes, money can't buy peace, a friend is our other half. I love Horace the man, the Odes and the Ferry translation which brings a contemporary idiom to the poems without seeming contrived.

Unreadable!
This is another unreadable (and incomprehensible) translation of Horace.Get the David West translation in the World Classics edition. At least, youwill be able to understand the poems in that version. ... Read more

Product Description
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

Product Description
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

Product Description
Studies in Peerage and Family History is the first of the major works on peerage and family history that brought Dr. Round recognition as the father of scientific genealogy. It contains papers on the succession of the Crown, the English Hapsburgs, and the origins of the Stewarts, Russells, and Spencers. Among other things, Round calls into question some of the claims put forth on behalf of British noble families by Burke's Peerage. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Hard to believe this is a century old!
Detailed case studies of noble (but non-royal) English families, including Mowbray, Russell, Spencer, Stewart, and Ballon. Excellent and stimulating background reading, if you pay attention. ... Read more

Product Description
Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He also became a key literary figure in the regime of the Emperor Augustus. In this volume a superb international cast of contributors present a stimulating and accessible assessment of the poet, his work, its themes and its reception. This provides the orientation and coverage needed by non-specialists and students, but also suggests fresh and provoking perspectives from which specialists may benefit. Since the last general book on Horace was published half a century ago, there has been a sea-change in perceptions of his work and in the literary analysis of classical literature in general, and this territory is fully charted in this Companion. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

A Useful Undergraduate Survey
Horace is without question one of the more important writers in Latin literature, and it is unfortunate, I believe, that he is so seldom read outside of scholarly circles.Within these circles, investigations and debates regarding his work--particularly Ars Poetica--have been ongoing for about 400 years, and the amount of substantial scholarship is remarkable, albeit often conflicting.The Cambridge Companion to Horace offers a broad overview of some of the more recent perspectives on the poet, and because all of the entries are very brief, it makes for easy reading.The problem, of course, is that none of the entries meets the standard of serious scholarship, despite the fact that they were written by some serious scholars.Consequently, anyone with an interest in knowing more about Horace beyond what one might encounter in an undergraduate survey course will find this book lacking.In his discussion of Ars Poetica, for example, Andrew Laird makes much of the supposed influence of Neoptolemus, but he does not bother to examine the various studies, such as those by Jensen (1923) and Dahlman (1957) that challenged this supposed influence.Nor does he explore the fact that poietes, poema, and poiesis have a long history, dating at least to the fifth century BC and the work of Herodotus--a history that would make Neoptolemus irrelevant if these topics indeed provide an organizational schema for Ars Poetica because they would be commonplaces in the Greco-Roman literary tradition.The fact that the Cambridge Companion cannot serve as a scholarly text does not, however, detract from its usefulness for undergraduates.Admittedly, there are few undergraduate survey courses these days that include Horace, but this text would be a useful adoption wherever they exist. ... Read more

Product Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.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

Product Description
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

Product Description
In the fifth installment of the action-packed adventures of Horace Splattly, the pint-sized ten-year-old turned superhero, Horace must tackle an invading alien shag carpet creature while soothing grouchy relatives at the Splattly-Blattly family reunion. Can our hero save the world from a hungry, blue carpet monster and end an age-old family feud? It’s a crusade tailor-made for everyone’s favorite lovable superhero! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

cool man you will love this!
I love when he eats the cupcakes! it is so cool man!read it now!I said now! go! go!go!read it I love it so moch. did I really write this when I was 6?

A sweet treat for young readers!
Imagine what a news report this would be: Scientist Sister Creates Superhero Brother! It's certainly a story you'd want to read.

Poor Horace Splatley is not only the shortest kid in town, he has a sister who is bigger and younger! After experimenting with a crazy recipe for strange purple cupcakes, she forces Horace to eat them and wear a purple costume. (It's sure not easy having mad scientist in the family!)

But little Horace has the soul of a hero, and soon finds himself flying around town and confronting a giant guinea pig who appears in the schoolyard. Will Horace save the town? The story is fast-paced, very silly and very entertaining.

Horace Splattley: The Cupcaked Crusader is sure to have young readers begging for a second helping of laughs.

Horace Splattly: The Cupcaked Crusader
This is coolio as my friend says.I also L-O-V-E it.Who wouldn't?Everybody would like if they read it.If you don't you're C-R-A-Z-Y!All the books are cool.It's so cool when Horace eats the cupcakes and you guess what superpowers he gets!His controling sis is so scientific!

the coolest book in the universe
this is the best book you will ever read. it is about a kid who eats her sisters cupcakes and turns into a superheroe.he has to fight a giant monster and an evil scientist.this book is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!i hope you read it!

Buy this book, it's very exciting
My mommy bought me this book.I liked this book very much.It was very funny.I liked that the cupcaked crusader had superpowers because he ate cupcakes, that was exciting. The powers only last for a few hours and it was sad when he lost them.I like that this book is about a boy, there are many books about girls already.The pictures very neat too.
I am now reading the second book and hope it is as good as the first one.Maybe it will be even better. ... Read more

Product Description
The Latin text of Books I and II of Horace's Odes is included along with notes for each word. The notes give complete grammatical, syntactical, mythological, geographical, historical, and vocabulary information. A literal translation of each ode is included at the back of the book.

Special Features

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Each word is fully parsed in the notes at the bottom of each page The lines of the odes are numbered sequentially beginning with Ode 1, Book I through Ode 20, Book II The sequential numbering is a unique aid to finding the English translation of the line of Latin in the translation section at the back of the book These aids should be exceedingly helpful to teachers who are faced with the daunting task of teaching Horace's Odes, especially the first time.

Also available:

Why Horace?: A Collection of Interpretations - ISBN 0865164177
Horace in His Odes - ISBN 0865160627

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

Customer Reviews (2)

Complete with grammatical and syntactical notes
Compiled and edited by LeaAnn A. Osburn, Horace Fully Parsed: Word By Word is a scholarly text that presents the classical Latin text of Books One and Two of Horace's Odes, complete with grammatical and syntactical notes for each word, explanations for historical, mythological, and geographical references, literal translations, and more. A welcome addition to personal and academic Latin Studies collections in general, Horace Fully Parsed is an invaluable reference for every teacher and student of Horace's enduring work.

Tool for Deeper Understanding
Horace was one of the greatest lyric poets of Rome, succeeding Vergil as poet laureate.His work contains layers of meaning, expressing his own sentiments through different personas.However, before a class can begin to tap into the wealth of understanding, they must first grasp the translation of his work.

"Horace Fully Parsed" is a wonderful tool for teachers to help students first untangle the grammatical side of Horace.With long sentences that often have subject and verb separated by many lines, the literal translation can be extremely difficult.Teachers new to the rigor and demands of an AP Latin course would especially find this text useful, as it defines each word in Horace's odes, along with its syntax and use.It is the perfect reference to help students who are struggling to figure out the order of words in Horace's poetry.The back of the book has literal translations for all of Book I and II of Horace's odes, piecing together the grammatical analysis.

This grammatical analysis of Horace's odes empowers teachers to encourage their students to look beyond the grammatical difficulty of Horace.While the sentence structure itself reflects the depth of this poetry, only when students look farther into Horace's odes will they begin to appreciate the artistry of Horace's craft. ... Read more

Product Description
To the opium-consumer, when deprived of this stimulant, there is nothing that life can bestow, not a blessing that man can receive, which would not come to him unheeded, undesired, and be a curse to him. There is but one all-absorbing want, one engrossing desire--his whole being has but one tongue--that tongue syllables but one word-- morphia. And oh! the vain, vain attempt to break this bondage, the labor worse than useless--a minnow struggling to break the toils that bind a Triton! ... Read more

Product Description
Horace's Odes are among the most popular and the most misunderstood of ancient writings.In this new paperback edition, the authors discuss each ode against its Greek and Roman background to ensure a clearer understanding of its classical and scholarly nature.The commentary includes a large number of parallel passages--showing how Horace plays new variations on old themes--sections on chronology and meter, and a select bibliography for each ode. ... Read more

Product Description
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Great Britain; ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Latin user
I went through this book of poems after finishing the Ecce Romani series. It was a great way to see the language used in a different way, and it was a bit more enjoyable.

helped me a ton with my translations...
This guide to Horace and Catullus poems is really good.I guess some people need to be warned that this does not help you learnLatin for the first time (you should get Wheelock's Latin or something similar in that case).
This guide makes the assumption that you already know your Latin essentials (but have trouble piecing things together when you actually deal with the real stuff), and serves as a guide to translation for advanced students.I found it to be really useful because it just about replaced my teacher in that it provides explanations in grammar and syntax.Translating poems can be rather difficult because the ancient poets often did not conform completely to the "rules of Latin" as we know it, such as omitting words that are simply "understood", using poetic devices that may be unfamiliar, and messing around with words to make them fit the meter - which can easily throw students off.And several times looking in a general Latin text won't aid you with the specific problem of the poem you are dealing with.That's why this book is so handy; it deals with those specific problems.It also throws in vocabulary so you don't have to always go looking things up.This thing made my life much easier as I was translating Catullus; I didn't have to run to my teacher as often or tediously try to look things up in another text for help that was usually of too general a nature.
The only drawback is that it covers a limited number of selected poems.Make sure you check out what poems are offered to see if it'll be of aid in the long run.OR if you simply enjoy translating, and any poem will do for you, this guide offers some of the most famous ones from the poets, in which case it will sure to be of help (given that you have already studied the grammar and basics of the language)!

book only good for text not learning
this book has many famous poems and writings of these people, but you don't learn any real latin in here. ... Read more

Product Description

From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young printer from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 after losing the presidential election to General Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley (b. 1811) was a quintessential New Yorker. He thrived on the city's ceaseless energy, with his New York Tribune at the forefront of a national revolution in reporting and transmitting news. Greeley devoured ideas, books, fads, and current events as quickly as he developed his own interests and causes, all of which revolved around the concept of freedom. While he adored his work as a New York editor, Greeley's lifelong quest for universal freedom took him to the edge of the American frontier and beyond to Europe. A major figure in nineteenth-century American politics and reform movements, Greeley was also a key actor in a worldwide debate about the meaning of freedom that involved progressive thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Karl Marx.

Greeley was first and foremost an ardent nationalist who devoted his life to ensuring that America live up to its promises of liberty and freedom for all of its members. Robert C. Williams places Greeley's relentless political ambitions, bold reform agenda, and complex personal life into the broader context of freedom. Horace Greeley is as rigorous and vast as Greeley himself, and as America itself in the long nineteenth century.

In the first comprehensive biography of Greeley to be published in nearly half a century, Williams captures Greeley from all sides: editor, reformer, political candidate, eccentric, and trans-Atlantic public intellectual; examining headlining news issues of the day, including slavery, westward expansion, European revolutions, the Civil War, the demise of the Whig and the birth of the Republican parties, transcendentalism, and other intellectual currents of the era.

Customer Reviews (2)

Enjoyable
A fine life of a fascinating and, it seems, often infuriating man. It has fitted in with many of the good American history books I have been enjoying of late.It is well worth any reader's attention- though I find the author at times at little too determined to drive his points home- one gets them the first time!

Outstanding Book On A Forgotten Man
Robert C. Williams' "Horace Greeley" is an engaging and very readable historical narrative that is as much about the times and tribulations of mid-nineteenth century America as it is about its underappreciated subject, Horace Greeley.This book will appeal to anyone interested in pre-Civil War America.The decades culminating in the Civil War were extremely turbulent as the nation searched its soul for a consensus on the vaguely- defined "freedoms" promised by our Founding Fathers. Greeley was in the thick of this volatile political and moral debate, earnestly seeking ways to avoid the coming "irrepressible conflict."

Horace Greeley was a kind of 19th century "zelig," an opinion-leader who played an influential role in virtually every political and social movement of the mid-1800s. But Greeley was more than a bit player to the leading actors of his day.He was a bold and innovative journalist who molded the modern newspaper.While considered one of the founders of the Republican Party and a political kingmaker, he ran for president against Grant in 1872 in perhaps one of the most unusual and fascinating presidential elections in American history.

The author deserves high praise for debunking many myths surrounding Greeley's alleged eccentricities, stereotypes that often originated from the distortions of his mudslinging rivals.The author's dispassionate analysis, rooted in a deep understanding of the political and social crosscurrents of the era, succeeds in putting Greeley's seemingly contradictory stances and actions in an understandable context.

This is a very accessible and enjoyable read, betraying none of the dry or plodding style of some specialized history.The author's depth of knowledge and scrupulous research is evident on every page.
... Read more

Product Description
Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later. Horace shares with Italians of today a distinctive delight in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing the moment, and a view of religion as aesthetic experience rather than mystical exaltation--in many ways, as Alexander puts it, Horace is the quintessential Italian. The voice we hear in this graceful and carefully annotated translation is thus one that emerges with clarity and dignity from the heart of an unchanging Latin culture.

Alexander is an accomplished poet, novelist, biographer, and translator who has lived in Italy for more than thirty years. Translating a poet of such variety and vitality as Horace calls on all his literary abilities. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 bce), was born the son of a freed slave in southern rural Italy and rose to become one of the most celebrated poets in Rome and a confidante of the most powerful figures of the age, including Augustus Caesar. His poetry ranges over politics, the arts, religion, nature, philosophy, and love, reflecting both his intimacy with the high affairs of the Roman Empire and his love of a simple life in the Italian countryside. Alexander translates the diverse poems of the youthful Satires and the more mature Odes with freshness, accuracy, and charm, avoiding affectations of archaism or modernism. He responds to the challenge of rendering the complexities of Latin verse in English with literary sensitivity and a fine ear for the subtleties of poetic rhythm in both languages. This is a major translation of one of the greatest of classical poets by an acknowledged master of his craft. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

Fluid translations, but not the best
When I teach Horace, I use this edition.The translations are fluid, and many of the important things are sufficiently annotated.The introduction, in focusing on the Italian Horace, that is, a Horace influenced by Italy, is quite helpful.But to really get what Horace is up to, the translations and commentary by David West are essential.Unfortunately they are very expensive and not always available.West is more attuned to how word order in Latin is the key, and the wealth of scholarly information he provides is unsurpassed.The downside of West is that his editions are less readable.

Owed to Horace
This may be a fine book of translation but on the whole it is not poetry.Compare versions of any ode translated by Alexander and Ferry and you'll see: Alexander is working with language, Ferry is working with poetry.If you want Horace's poetry, buy the Ferry text.

The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace (Lockert Library of
A brilliant translation that takes a one-time "required reading" to a new plane. Lively, witty, enjoyable makes Horace a man for the next millenium. Sadly I must tell your readers that the translator SidneyAlexander, a wonderful renaissance scholar who has written extensively on Michaelangelo has died (Dec. 11,1999) at the age of 87.

now easily the best Horace in English!!!
This translation by Sidney Alexander kicks David Ferry's in the butt, no exaggeration!David Ferry's absurdly popular version is wildly overhyped, with his friends in academia lining up to contribute glowing blurbs for thecover.Believe me, this is THE translation of Horace that you will want toread and re-read! ... Read more