{"product_id":"the-epistles-of-horace-bilingual-edition-paperback","title":"The Epistles of Horace (Bilingual Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHorace\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Ferry\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDavid Ferry\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Ferry\u003c\/b\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for his translation of \u003ci\u003eGilgamesh, \u003c\/i\u003e is a poet and translator who has also won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, given by the Academy of American Poets, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, given by the Library of Congress. In 2001, he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2002 he won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Ferry is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52701989503283,"sku":"9780374528522","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eufDJUtV5C9780374528522.webp?v=1763286969","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-epistles-of-horace-bilingual-edition-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}