The Epistles of Horace (Bilingual Edition)

When David Ferry's translation of The Odes of Horace appeared in 1997, Bernard Knox, writing in The New York Review of Books, called it "a Horace for our times." Now Ferry has translated the two books of the Epistles, in which Horace perfected his dazzling conversational verse medium, talking about how to get along in a Roman world of temptations, opportunities, and contingencies with one's integrity intact. Here, too, are the famous "Art of Poetry" and other poems about the responsibilities of the writer - truth to the demands of one's medium; fearless, clear-sighted self-knowledge; and unillusioned, uncynical realism - who joyfully recognizes the world for what it is.