The Odes of Horace, Books I-IV& The Saecular Hymn Translated Into English Verse (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Odes of Horace, Books I-IV& The Saecular Hymn Translated Into English Verse This version of the Odes of Horace has not been written according to any theory. Metres have not been appropriated to metres, as Mr. Conington advised, nor even to types of odes. I have simply tried to find the English metre into which each ode fell most readily, and for the rest to write readable verse, as faithful as I could make it to the Latin consistently with being always English. Quatrain has been done into quatrain, but for many of the Asclepiads I have used the ballad metre at some slight sacrifice of brevity. In one instance (III. 30) the sacrifice is considerable, but as the version of that ode is one of the earliest done I have let it stand unpruned. To the general question whether anything can excuse another verse translation of the Odes I think it safer, after reading many of my predecessors' prefaces, to attempt no reply. Mr. A. D. Godley may be perfectly right in saying that no metrical version I 'can claim to be more than a frigid travesty'. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.