Alexander sidney translator (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first printing. 182p. Gilt titles on spine, brown cloth-covered boards. 8vo. Cloth gently rounded at corners and spine ends. Hint of foxing on endpapers, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust wrapper a little rubbed on extreme edges, slight toning visible on verso. Dust jacket in a removable, clear film sleeve.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Book is tight, bright and clean. Dust Jacket shows some light fading to spine - otherwise Near Fine.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. xxix, 353 pages : 23 cm. Summary:"Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later. Horace shares with Italians of today a distinctive delight in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing the moment, and a view of religion as aesthetic experience rather than mystical exaltation - in many ways, as Alexander puts it, Horace is the quintessential Italian. The voice we hear in this graceful and carefully annotated translation is thus one that emerges with clarity and dignity from the heart of an unchanging Latin culture."--Jacket.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. annotated edition. 288 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.