Talk:Odes (Horace)

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I was somewhat surprised at how thin this page was, given that Horace's Odes are a major work in Latin literature. I've added content which I consider basic to a cursory appreciation of the collection; I could write more, but fear I'd be getting too far off the verifiable, objective criteria required of Wikipedia. Hope you find it useful Chjones 60656 02:39, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Woops, thanks Ceyockey. I pressed the wrong button, literature cat not stub. I am using Jag123 script   which makes these changes easy. Unless you press the wrong button like me. Onco p53 02:55, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I don't think the reference to Tennyson is correct. The cited passage from "The Princess" reads "... followed then A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thunderous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever..."

There is no hint that the odes are those of Horace, whose name nowhere appears in the poem. --PryceJD (talk) 18:01, 21 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Yet it seems that Tennyson was familiar with Horace's Odes and translated parts of two of them (Pollard, A. (1982). "Three Horace Translations by Tennyson". Tennyson Research Bulletin. Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 16-24.) So when he says "odes" he presumably means Horace. Pollard (p. 19) thinks Tennyson is referring to such phrases as donec virenti canities abest / morosa, which he had trouble translating. Kanjuzi (talk) 20:09, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Votes for deletion results
This article was listed on Votes for deletion in accordance with the deletion policy on February 2005. The result of this nomination was keep. Please see this page's entry for archive of the debate. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:44, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Michie translation
Please see my remarks on this translation & its author, James Michie. --NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 12:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)--NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 12:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

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