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Title: The Odes of Horace : Bilingual Edition by David Ferry ISBN: 0-374-52572-2 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 30 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: I wanted to like this but . . .
Comment: I wanted to like this translation after all the nice things that D.S. Carne-Ross said about it in the useful and enjoyable "Horace in English." But this is a translation that is made more for image-by-image accuracy than for the ear. Often you read Ferry describing the right word rather than saying it. (Phrases like "too unrestrainedly joyful in good fortune" read like a dictionary entry.) In the difficult-to-render i.5 he ends up phrasing things like Yoda - "Hapless are they enamored of that beauty." Too academic are they who write as this one.
Rating: 3
Summary: There IS a better translation of Horace out there. . .
Comment: David Ferry's translation is simply undeservedly popular and is absolutely NOT the best Horace in English currently in print!
I defy anyone to find Ferry's Horace superior to the wonderfully readable translation done recently by Sidney Alexander and published in Princeton University Press's Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Richard Howard, translator extraordinaire himself, has written a short Preface for the volume, in which he compares a passage from Alexander's work to other versions of the same passage done by Pound, Michie, and Burton Raffel, and Howard justly judges that Alexander's is the "far superior text."
Ferry's language is too often simply muddled, the syntax unclear. Do yourself a great favor, buy the Sidney Alexander translation, and you'll be rewarded with a vastly more enjoyable reading experience!
Rating: 4
Summary: Uncommon Poems of the Commonplace
Comment: No doubt that a command of Greek and Roman mythology adds immeasurably to the enjoyment of Horace's Odes but in many cases the context explains the reference. Horace's commonplace themes are deeply imbedded in our culture and he illuminates them with uncommon insight and poetry: love is cruel, seize the day, greed wants more, death equalizes, happy the one who wants nothing, don't be beguiled by past success, luck changes, accept your place, beauty fades, death comes, money can't buy peace, a friend is our other half. I love Horace the man, the Odes and the Ferry translation which brings a contemporary idiom to the poems without seeming contrived.
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Title: The Epistles of Horace by Horace, David Ferry ISBN: 0374148562 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Horace: Satires and Epistles/Persius: Satires by Quintus. Horatius Flaccus, Niall Rudd, Horace ISBN: 0140442790 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: March, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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