The Aeneid
$26.30
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
28 December 2000
Summary
W. F. Jackson Knight’s prose translation captures the vitality and music of the original, while his introduction discusses Virgil’s life and literary career, and his poetic style and vision.
Aeneas the True - son of Venus and of a mortal father - escapes from Troy after it is sacked by the conquering Greeks. He undergoes many trials and adventures on a long sea journey, from a doomed love affair in Carthage with the tragic Queen Dido to a sojourn in the underworld. All the way, the he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140440515 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140440518 |
| Author: | Virgil, W.F. Jackson Knight |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 December 2000 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 132mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Critics Review
“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
About The Author
Virgil
Virgil (70-19BC) studied rhetoric and philosophy in Rome where he became a court poet. As well as The Aeneid, his Eclogues earned him the reputation as the finest Latin poet.
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