Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the
Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of
Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out
how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged
in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years
later. Horace shares with Italians of today a distinctive delight
in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing the
moment, and a view of religion as aesthetic experience rather than
mystical exaltation--in many ways, as Alexander puts it, Horace is
the quintessential Italian. The voice we hear in this graceful and
carefully annotated translation is thus one that emerges with
clarity and dignity from the heart of an unchanging Latin
culture.
Alexander is an accomplished poet, novelist, biographer, and
translator who has lived in Italy for more than thirty years.
Translating a poet of such variety and vitality as Horace calls on
all his literary abilities. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8
bce), was born the son of a freed slave in southern rural Italy and
rose to become one of the most celebrated poets in Rome and a
confidante of the most powerful figures of the age, including
Augustus Caesar. His poetry ranges over politics, the arts,
religion, nature, philosophy, and love, reflecting both his
intimacy with the high affairs of the Roman Empire and his love of
a simple life in the Italian countryside. Alexander translates the
diverse poems of the youthful "Satires" and the more mature "Odes"
with freshness, accuracy, and charm, avoiding affectations of
archaism or modernism. He responds to the challenge of rendering
the complexities of Latin verse in English with literary
sensitivity and a fine ear for the subtleties of poetic rhythm in
both languages. This is a major translation of one of the greatest
of classical poets by an acknowledged master of his craft.
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