The Odes Of Horace

Since antiquity the odes of the great Roman lyric poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C.) have been a work through which students grow familiar with Latin poetry and a key work for all serious readers of poetry. But not until David Ferry's translation have modern readers been able to approach Horace in their own contemporary idiom. Ferry's Horace speaks to today's readers virtually unmediated, the beauty, tenderness, wit, and enormous sense of his poems wholly available.