The Satires of Horace

Poetry.Translation. A fresh new translation of the Satires of Horace by the poet William Matthews. Stanley Plumly writes, "What is special about Matthews's Horatian Satires is the immediacy of the idiom, the sense of discovery of the actual moment, the quickness of the turn of the line. If we are fools, wisdom and wise words are our only chance. Horace's words, in Matthews' hands, become alive, just-written, and immortal again because they are so new."

About the author

William Matthews was born in Cincinnati in 1942, and educated at Yale and the University of North Carolina. He published eleven books of poetry and received many prizes and awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Time & Money (1996). Matthews taught at the City University of New York until his death in 1997.

Product details

• Authors: Horace
• Assisted by: William Matthews (Translation)
• Publisher: Ausable Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2002
• EAN: 9781931337007
• ISBN: 978-1-931337-00-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 222 mm x 147 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies