 John Keats echoed the opening of Horace's "Epodes" 14 in the opening lines of "Ode to a Nightingale".The Roman poet was presented in the nineteenth century as an honorary English gentleman.William Thackeray produced a version of "Odes" in which Horace's 'boy' became 'Lucy', and Gerard Manley Hopkins translated the boy innocently as 'child'.