The Complete Odes and Epodes (Oxford World's Classics)
by Horace
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Author: HoraceTranslator: David West
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-16
ISBN: 019283942X
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: The more notes the better
Summary: 4 Stars
Okay - so Horace is notoriously allusive, each line packed with meaning. What that calls for, it would seem, is a translation with as many pages of notes as of text, if not more, and a line-by-line gloss in the back.West in his Oxford World's Classic gives better annotation than most (the Penguin or Modern Library edition), but still could stand to do a lot more. One suspects he wants people to buy his expanded editions of the Odes.
The translations, as poetry, will not knock you off your feet, but they do better than the looser Michie versions at letting you know what Horace more or less wrote. (I find Michie's unrhymed versions very fine as poetry, but the rhymed ones are too glib to bear.) And West's aren't quite as soporific as Shepard's versions in Penguin.
Basically, it seems, I need to learn Latin. And if any of you eager reviewers knows a good English-language commentary on the Odes, don't keep it a secret.
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