the ode

Reading
Horace, Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library) – note that you will need to be on the Bilkent network to access this resource
Andrew Marvell’s ‘An Horatian Ode Upon the Return of Cromwell from Ireland’ (annotated edition)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Dejection: An Ode
Seamus Heaney, ‘Anything Can Happen‘ (link includes sound recording of Heaney introducing and reading his poem)

Secondary Reading
Robert Hass on the Ode
Seamus Heaney on translating Horace’s Ode 1.34
Joanne Piavanini, ‘9/11 and Transnational Memory: Seamus Heaney’s ‘Anything Can Happen’‘, Australian Humanities Review 59 (April/May 2016), pp.174-89.