Finding the Ferry-way
by Matthew Koslowski on January 13, 2010
in Anecdotes
In This Essay |
The Art of Sinking in Poetry by Alexander Pope
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The Epistles of Horace: Bilingual Edition (David Ferry, trans.)
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The Odes of Horace: Bilingual Edition (David Ferry, trans.)
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| “For poet, classics translate into success” by David Mehegan, The Boston Globe, July 7, 2005 |
The other day I found a copy of Alexander Pope’s The Art of Sinking in Poetry
I felt myself floating after finishing my undergraduate degree.
I found myself fighting against ideas that I did not want to accept. But I did not then have the strength to put them down.
I still don’t.
Then one day I was reading The Boston Globe — only good things come from reading The Boston Globe — when I came across a story about a translator trying to revive the classics of ancient Roman poet Horace.
