Word: horaceã
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...collected his thoughts on education in his book “Horace??s Compromise,” which Powell said helped Sizer “find his voice” and served as inspiration for the Coalition of Essential Schools, which emphasizes the role of students as workers and of teachers as coaches...
Tengbo Li ’12 raised the recent criticism—leveled by Horace??s Engdahl, the secretary of the Swedish Academy—that Americans are too insular in their literary perspective and that Europe remains at the center of the literary universe...
...same perfectionism that impelled him forward in the Lampoon lay behind this academic success. He researched a thesis called “Non-Horatian Elements in Robert Herrick’s Imitations and Echoes of Horace?? and was frustrated when it didn’t snag a summa grade...
...Ferry certainly does not shy away from some of antiquity’s most challenging verse to translate. Horace??s odes are a case in point. Ferry performed several in his reading; they take full advantage of the great freedom of word order that Latin’s inflectional syntax allows, and form is often inextricably linked to meaning. Nietszche noted that the arrangements of words in the odes resemble the tesserae of a mosaic—a poetic translator’s nightmare...
...more the translator’s duty to preserve the integrity of this message than to re-imagine it, and many of the translations Ferry read attested to his remarkable success in this regard. One of the odes of Horace Ferry performed, for example, was a lament addressed to Horace??s friend and fellow poet Virgil over the death of their friend, the respected scholar Quintilian. In Latin, the poem has Horace??s characteristic untranslatable syntactic gymnastics; but it is also a gripping dialectic on the nature of loss and mourning. Ferry’s reading...
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