Virgil's epic poem of the birth of Rome translated by Patric Dickinson. "No other version surpasses it in clarity and vigor. At last, 'the good Aeneas' is a hero, a living man every reader of English verse can understand. Dickinson has shown us why The Aeneid...has lived beyond all changes of fashion in the writing of narrative poetry." (Horace Gregory)
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A modern poetic translation of The Aeneid by distinguished poet and Oxford Professor C. Day Lewis. Present day readers will find all the beauty, nobility, excitement and humanity of the original in this masterful English version.
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"A brilliant translation; the only one since Dryden which reads like English verse and conveys some of the majesty and pathos of the original."―Bernard M. W. Knox
"Mandelbaum has . . . given us a contemporary experience of the masterpiece, at last."―David Ignatow
"The book has a wonderful, detailed liveliness in every line."―Robert Fagles
"Comes closer to the impossible goal of perfection than any of the numerous efforts that have poured out of American and British presses since World War II."―William S. Anderson
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- PublisherSt. Martin's Press
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0333118731
- ISBN 13 9780333118733
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages560
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