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The Aeneid
Title:
The Aeneid
Author:
Virgil author.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Aeneis. English (Ferry)
Publication Information:
Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

©2017
Physical Description:
xx, 416 pages : 1 illustration, map ; 24 cm
Summary:
"This new translation brings Virgil's masterpiece newly to life for English-language readers. It's the first in centuries crafted by a translator who is first and foremost a poet, and it is a glorious thing. David Ferry has long been known as perhaps our greatest contemporary translator of Latin poetry, his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics having established themselves as much-admired standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius, rendering Virgil's formal metrical lines into an English that is familiar and alive. Yet in doing so, he surrenders none of the feel of the ancient world that resonates throughout the poem, and gives it the power that has drawn readers to it for centuries. In Ferry's hands, the Aeneid becomes once more a lively, dramatic poem of daring and adventure, of love and loss, of devotion and death. Never before have Virgil's twin gifts of poetic language and urgent, compelling storytelling been presented so powerfully for English-language readers. Ferry's Aeneid will be a landmark, a gift to longtime lovers of Virgil, and the perfect entry point for new readers."--Dust jacket.
General Note:
Map on end papers.
Language:
English
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780226450186
Format :
Book