Odes. Book I. Edited by R. Mayer. - HORACE, (HORATIUS),
KORTE INHOUD
?With this addition to the Cambridge ?green-and-yellow? series, Roland Mayer fills a niche that had long stood sadly empty. (?) Mayer?s commentary addresses the graduate student or sophisticated undergraduate to develop a more nuanced approach to translating the ?Odes?. After the conventional List of Abbreviations, we find Mayer?s Introduction to his edition. This follows the general pattern of the Cambridge series. Its first section, 'Lyric Impulse and Lyric Challenge', addresses Horace?s inheritance from the archaic lyricists and the Alexandrians; here Mayer treats generic differences between Horace?s Odes and Satires. He touches as well on issues of oral vs. written production of poetry. The second section, 'Technical Challenges of Lyric', includes subsections on meter, register, and word order. Section 3, 'The Architecture of the Ode', outlines some primary ode types, while granting a paragraph each to ?Middles? and ?Endings? of the Horatian Ode. Subsequent sections of the Introduction cover book structur...
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2014Uitgever: Cambridge University Press253 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0521671019ISBN-13: 9780521671019Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge, 2014. 5th impr. IX,246p. Paperback. [New] [Auteur: HORACE, (HORATIUS),] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 2014] [Titel: Odes. Book I. Edited by R. Mayer.]
