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Horace: Odes
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This edition is ideal for upper school and university students, as well as readers with a keen interest in classical poetry and the arts. It serves those seeking a deeper understanding of Horace's enduring literary influence.
The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. 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 illuminating the
imagination of one of literary history's towering figures.
This edition of Horace's Odes is dseigned for students in upper school and university, with commentary to clarify linguistic issues and to aid interpretation.
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The Odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. This edition of the Odes was first published in the outstanding ‘red Macmillan’ series, in which it finally replaced the late nineteenth-century edition of T.E. Page.
Quinn’s edition is designed to meet the need for a modern approach to students in upper school and university. He begins with the assumption that Horace is a major poet, and that the Odes should be recognised and enjoyed as poetry. The commentary provides linguistic aid at the appropriate level but also attempts to reconstruct the thesis upon which each poem rests, and to interpret it as a structural and poetic whole for the attentive and responsive reader.
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ISBN: 9781853995132
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 January 1998
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bristol Classical Press
Edition: 2nd New edition
Contributors:
- Volume editor Kenneth Quinn
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 136.0mm
Height: 214.0mm
Weight: 456g
Pages: 333
About the Author
Kenneth Quinn was a fellow of St Johns College, Cambridge and later became Professor of Classics in the University of Otago, New Zealand.
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