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WHAT FOREIGN SHORE IBD

SEAN PATRICK TAYLOR
SILVERWOOD BOOKS
11 / 2019
9781781329344
Inglés

Sinopsis

Why has a reclusive poet from the first-century Roman countryside exerted such compelling influence over two thousand years, over poets as diverse as Jonson, Keats, and Auden? Most widely known for his crisp enjoinderácarpe diemá&ndash, generally translated as seize the day&rdquo, &ndash, Horace was no mere hedonist. His lyric celebration of the simple joys of life, such as erotic pursuit, friendship, and good wine, are grounded in an almost zen-like mindfulness. His Epicureanism finds its balance in a recognition of the transitory nature of the world and its suffering, and a rather cool detachment.Taylor has given us an account of theáOdesáof Horace that is not a simple translation. He uses theáOdesáas a point of departure for a collection of poems that, while modelled on Horace&rsquo,s originals, are carried over into the modern world, and take for their landscape Taylor&rsquo,s own territory of Southern California and the Pacific Northwest.