HoraceTim Atkins Horace by Tim Atkins is an original translation of poems by the 1st century BC Roman lyric poet, focusing primarily on the four books of Odes, with some attention to the Epodes and Epistles. Atkins voice moves between deadpan, jocular, and oddly poignant, while preserving Horaces abrupt shifts in tone as well as his affection for the minute and ordinary. On the field of the cloth of gold A wind puffs up The Prime Minister done with his