{"product_id":"9780374528522","title":"The Epistles of Horace (Bilingual Edition)","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Epistles of Horace (Bilingual Edition)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Horace\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy aim is to take familiar things and make\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry of them, and do it in such a way\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat it looks as if it was as easy as could be\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor anybody to do it . . . the power of making\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA perfectly wonderful thing out of nothing much\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e--from \"The Art of Poetry\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen David Ferry's translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Odes of Horace\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1997, Bernard Knox, writing in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, called it \"a Horace for our times.\" Now Ferry has translated Horace's two books of \u003ci\u003eEpistles\u003c\/i\u003e, in which Horace perfected the conversational verse medium that gives his voice such dazzling immediacy, speaking in these letters with such directness, wit, and urgency to young writers, to friends, to his patron Maecenas, to Emperor Augustus himself. It is the voice of a free man, talking about how to get along in a Roman world full of temptations, opportunities, and contingencies, and how to do so with one's integrity intact. Horace's world, so unlike our own and yet so like it, comes to life in these poems. And there are also the poems -- the famous \"Art of Poetry\" and others -- about the tasks and responsibilities of the writer: truth to the demands of one's medium, fearless clear-sighted self-knowledge, and unillusioned, uncynical realism, joyfully recognizing the world for what it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reading these versions we feel as if the streets that Horace walked have opened onto our own.” —\u003ci\u003ePeter Campion, Raritan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Masterful . . . Writing of such authority is not translation in the conventional sense, but a reawakening of an ancient voice in the voice of a poet who is sitting, as it were, on the other side of the room. Ferry takes his bearings from the great blank verse poets of the last two hundred years, especially Frost, and while he manages to be faithful to the meaning, substance and shades, of the Latin original, Ferry achieves through his historical, cultural, and linguistic cross-pollination something more important and lasting than mere translation: he brings to life new as well as old possibilities for poetry in America now. The all-but-amazing fact is that this is now the third time that Ferry has performed this feat, his Gilgamesh (1992) and Horace's Odes (1997) being the other and even more remarkable instances.” —\u003ci\u003eHarry Thomas, Harvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuth Lilly Poetry Prize (Winner) (2011)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374528522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40671003312334,"sku":"9780374528522","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_787c5ebd-5463-446f-8b16-9bf1b4ce5908.jpg?v=1639798414","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374528522","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}