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About the Author
James Michie studied classics at Trinity College, Oxford. His other translations include The Poems of Catullus and Horace's Odes (available as a Modern Library Paperback Classic). His Collected Poems was awarded the Hawthornden Prize.

Shadi Bartsch is Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago, the editor in chief of Classical Philology, and the author of Decoding the Ancient Novel; Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's \"Civil War\"; and Actors in the Audi-ence: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian.
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James Michie was born in 1927 and studied classics at Trinity College, Oxford. His other translations include The Poems of Catullus and Virgil's Eclogues. His Collected Poems was awarded the Hawthornden Prize.

Gregson Davis is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Duke University and the author of Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse.
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About the Author
About the Translators:
James Michie is translator of The Odes of Horace and The Centennial Hymn. Colin Leach is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford University
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About the Author
P. J. Kavanagh edited the Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney (OUP 1982). Other publications include Finding Connections (Flamingo 1991), The Perfect Stranger (Carcanet 1995), and Voices in Ireland: A Traveller's Literary Companion (1994). James Michie is a poet and translator. Publications include his own Collected Poems (Sinclair Stevenson, 1994)
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