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What Foreign Shore - Poems Based on the Odes of Horace (Paperback)
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What Foreign Shore - Poems Based on the Odes of Horace (Paperback)
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Loot Price R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
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Why has a reclusive poet from the first-century Roman countryside
exerted such compelling influence over two thousand years, over
poets as diverse as Jonson, Keats, and Auden? Most widely known for
his crisp enjoinder carpe diem - generally translated as "seize the
day"- Horace was no mere hedonist. His lyric celebration of the
simple joys of life, such as erotic pursuit, friendship, and good
wine, are grounded in an almost zen-like mindfulness. His
Epicureanism finds its balance in a recognition of the transitory
nature of the world and its suffering, and a rather cool
detachment. Taylor has given us an account of the 'Odes' of Horace
that is not a simple translation. He uses the 'Odes' as a point of
departure for a collection of poems that, while modelled on
Horace's originals, are carried over into the modern world, and
take for their landscape Taylor's own territory of Southern
California and the Pacific Northwest.
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