Horace: Odes I: Carpe Diem

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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) Vorwort New, accurate translation of a core undergraduate text Zusammenfassung 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

• Authors: Horace
• Assisted by: David West (Editor), David West (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.1995
• EAN: 9780198721604
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872160-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Horace Odes; Horace Odes
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Poetry by individual poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts