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.

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 ...

Issued by a major commercial publishing house, the book’s accessibility has potential to put the Aeneid on nonscholarsʼ reading lists. A broad new audience for the epic would be a welcome turn of ...

Aeneid Book VI by Seamus Heaney, book review: Powers of the underworld. Seamus Heaney left a final gift to readers - Aeneas's account of his travels in the land of the dead from Virgil's epic.

Seamus Heaney's Aeneid Book VI. Ep. 1/5 - ... Given the themes of Book VI, there is an added poignancy in this final gift to his readers – a work which marks the end of Heaney's poetic journey.