Ours is a great age for classical translation. Just in the past dozen years, Virgil's "Aeneid" has been tackled by Robert Fagles, Stanley Lombardo, Frederick Ahl, Sarah Ruden and, now, David Ferry ...

Ninety-three-year-old David Ferry was in his 80s when he started translating “The Aeneid.’’ ...

John Dryden called it "the best poem by the best poet", while Dante instated its author as his guide through hell. For more than 1000 years after its composition, Virgil's epic poem, The Aeneid, a ...

The Aeneid by Vergil is a Roman epic that follows the journey of Aeneas, a Trojan warrior who escapes the destruction of Troy and sets out to find a new homeland in Italy. Guided by fate and the ...

BOOK OF THE WEEK Seamus Heaney – Aeneid Book VI, published in hardback by Faber & Faber VIRGIL’S Aeneid has provided a wealth of inspiration for Seamus Heaney. Skip to main content.

Seamus Heaney says he was "an inner literalist", trying to get the exact sense of Virgil, even as he strove as a poet for a language "decorous enough''.