The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart: Volume V. The Works of Horace, Translated Into Verse

By:

Christopher Smart

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Oxford English Texts

Show Hide Adult Content

$729.99

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Wrap this item as a gift ($5.90) - add a free gift card on the next page

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $182.50 with Afterpay Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 11-21 June using International Courier

Description

Published here for the first time since 1767, Christopher Smart's verse translation of Horace was made in the prodigiously creative years between his release from the madhouse and his death. The translation strengthens the impression made by all Smart's later verse of a poet of remarkable lyrical virtuosity and boldness of expression. The translation now emerges as testimony to Smart's tireless creativity and poetic energy, and as a significant contribution to the present reappraisal of Horace's influence on English literature. Smart's contemporaries, however, either ignored the project, or treated it with contempt, and it was never reprinted. This edition includes Smart's own critical preface, which is important for its declaration of the writer's principles as translator, and for its unorthodox ideas about poetic language. Karina Williamson's informative introduction discusses Smart's principles and methods in the context of eighteenth century attitudes to the translation of clasical works. Full scholarly apparatus is provided, together with a detailed and clarifying commentary which explains Smart's more obscure passages.

Release date Australia

June 6th, 1996

Author

Christopher Smart

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Karina Williamson

Pages

512

Series

Oxford English Texts

Dimensions

143x223x30

ISBN-13

9780198127727

Product ID

2009564

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here