Horatian echoes
John Osborne Sargent
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Horatian echoes

John Osborne Sargent
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Horatian Echoes is a volume of translations from Horace by John Osborne Sargent (1811-1891), the Boston lawyer and political journalist who made the Roman poet his lifelong companion. Published after his death with an introduction by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the versions render the odes in the polished verse of a cultivated amateur tradition that ran strong in nineteenth-century Boston. Gentleman-translators like Sargent kept Horace a living presence in American letters. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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John Osborne Sargent

John Osborne Sargent combined law, journalism, translation, and literary work in nineteenth-century America born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1811. He graduated from Harvard College in 1830 as class valedictorian, studied law, and became active in literary and political circles. Horatian echoes gathers his English translations…

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