- Translations into English, Latin Laudatory poetry, Poetry, Latin Verse satire
This groundbreaking new translation of Horace's most widely read collection of poetry is rendered in modern, metrical English verse rather than the more common free verse found in many other translations.
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Character-led, contemplative, earnest and prestige.
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- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Horace
- First published
- 1635
- Pages
- 290
- Publisher
- Penguin, R. Hart-Davis, Johns Hopkins University Press
- Editions
- 127
- Language
- und, Italian, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780672604447
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