{"product_id":"9781466894938","title":"The Odes of Horace","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Ferry, the acclaimed poet and translator of \u003ci\u003eGilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e, has made an inspired 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvailable as an ebook for the first time, this edition includes only the English language translation of the Odes. As Rosanna Warren noted about Ferry's work in \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \"We finally have an English Horace whose rhythmical subtlety and variety  do justice to the Latin poet's own inventiveness, in which emotion rises  from the motion of the verse . . . To sense the achievement, one has to  read the collection as a whole . . . and they can take one's breath away  even as they continue breathing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182628978928,"sku":"9781466894938","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466894938_p0.jpg?v=1769892487","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466894938","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}