The Aeneid of Virgil - Softcover

Virgil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481927515 ISBN 13: 9781481927512

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

The Aeneid is Virgil's great classic telling the legendary story of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins.

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From the Back Cover

"Fitzgerald's is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come."-- New York Review of Books

"From the beginning to the end of this English poem...the reader will find the same sure control of English rhythms, the same deft phrasing, and an energy which urges the eye onward."--The New Republic

"A rendering that is both marvelously readable and scrupulously faithful.... Fitzgerald has managed, by a sensitive use of faintly archaic vocabulary and a keen ear for sound and rhythm, to suggest the solemnity and the movement of Virgil's poetry as no previous translator has done (including Dryden).... This is a sustained achievement of beauty and power."--Boston Globe

From the Inside Flap

Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1481927515
• ISBN 13: 9781481927512
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 298