{"product_id":"the-odes-of-horace-bilingual-edition-paperback-1","title":"The Odes 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\u003eDavid Ferry\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDavid Ferry\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Latin poet Horace is, along with his friend Virgil, the most celebrated of the poets of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and, with Virgil, the most influential. These marvelously constructed poems with their unswerving clarity of vision and their extraordinary range of tone and emotion have deeply affected the poetry of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Herbert, Dryden, Marvell, Pope, Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth, Frost, Larkin, Auden, and many others, in English and in other languages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow David Ferry, the acclaimed poet and translator of \u003ci\u003eGilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e, has made an inspired new translation of the complete \u003ci\u003eOdes of Horace\u003c\/i\u003e, one that conveys the wit, ardor and sublimity of the original with a music of all its own.\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 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52729660277043,"sku":"9780374525729","price":38.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/yGaa6sL8GB9780374525729_65c4f96f-1ebf-4f4f-9d5a-4956d69c868b.webp?v=1763816132","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-odes-of-horace-bilingual-edition-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}