"For this last half-year I have been troubled with the disease (as I may call it) of translation … " Thus John Dryden begins the preface to his volume, Sylvae, or the Second Part of Poetical ...

Until Steele Commager's The Odes of Horace is published next week, it will still be possible to say that the best work on Horace is Reuben Brower's study of Alexander Pope's ancient models. Commager ...

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in English as Horace, has always been the best-loved Latin poet after Virgil. From the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century, there had been 90 translations ...

A review of Horace: The Odes. New Translations by Contemporary Poets, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Horace’s four books of odes have faced the test of time more successfully than any body of poems in ...

In the spring of 1944 British special forces and local guerrillas kidnapped Maj. Gen. Heinrich Kreipe, the commander of the German forces occupying the Greek island of Crete. The kidnappers marched ...