Odes

New, third in a row after the translations of A.A. Feta and P.F. Porfirova, a full poetic Russian translation of all four books, Horace, returns to the traditions of transferring Horace"s lyrics almost forgotten in the twentieth century by means of a Russian rhymed verse. Translator Alexei Kokotov completely shares the opinion that is widespread among specialists that all attempts to copy ancient schemes based on the new languages ​​of quantitative metrics are invariably leading to artistic collapse, and that the translations of the Horace made in the last hundred years, read, with the rarest exceptions, and is boring , and painful. The translator also believes that, returning to the Russian verse, it is absolutely necessary, following the repair of several cultural Russian publishers, to return to Russian spelling: the book is printed in pre -reform spelling