Excerpt from Including Horace

Ever since Davidson published his translations in 171 I, an entire literature has grown 11p around Horace, so great that the poet himself has been al most obscured. Practically every editor has sent forth the Odes and Satires with a mass of erudite notes, of variorum readings, of grammatical and tech nical criticisms, of dissertations on the metrical intrica cies - a collection so weighty that it made Horace seem the pedantic and hair-splitting technician that every freshman suspects him of being. One comes, with surprise and gratification, upon such a fresh and energetic work as E. C. Wickham's Horace for English Readers (published at The Clarendon Press), in which Dr. Wickham treats Horace as an Old friend instead of an Old classic. In these almost casual prose versions the spontaneity and light-heart edness of Horace's finest examples are preserved. And, to acknowledge the debt more directly, it is to this volume in particular that the present paraphraser has turned whenever his small and sketchy stock of Latin has failed him.

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