A review of Horace: The Odes. New Translations by Contemporary Poets, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Horace’s four books of odes have faced the test of time more successfully than any body of poems in ...

Until Steele Commager's The Odes of Horace is published next week, it will still be possible to say that the best work on Horace is Reuben Brower's study of Alexander Pope's ancient models. Commager ...

THERE has been in the last year a great revival of interest in Horace, — if one can speak of reviving what has never died or even slept. When Augustus Cæsar, in the year 17 B. C., called the whole ...

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The Classical Review publishes informative reviews from leading scholars on new work covering the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Publishing over 150 high quality reviews and ...

They are friends. Horace of ancient Rome and Harry Eyres of present-day London. It’s a friendship that took a while to develop. As a schoolboy at Eton, Eyres did not take to Horace. Blame the Latin ...

On the many translations of a famous ode by Horace. vestimenta maris deo. It is impossible to translate poetry perfectly. As Boswell said, “In a different language it may be the same tune, but it has ...