The Story Of Aeneas Virgil S Aeneid Translated Into English Verse

Originally published in 1928, this book contains a translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English verse. Salt retains the half-lines present in the Latin original, and uses a variety of rhyming schemes to convey the sense as well as the literal meaning of the epic. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Virgil and the history of the transmission of his most famous work.

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A bold new translation of the Aeneid

From the cover. This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poem, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction, glossary, and bibliographic notes by Allen Mandelbaum, together with fourteen powerful illustrations created for this volume by Barry Moser.

Excerpt from The Aeneid of Virgil: Translated Into English Verse Dryden's style in poetry is sufficiently unlike that which finds most favor in the present day: but it can not be said to be Obsolete. And though in its minuter shades it affords rather a contrast than a parallel to Virgil's, they have at all events the common quality Of being really poetical; that inner identity which far outweighs a thousand points of external similarity, supposing these to be attainable. Pope, writing ao cording to his own genius, has produced something so utterly different, in all its circumstantial features, from the product Of Homeric genius, that an artist Of con fessedly inferior powers need not be discouraged from attempting the task again: but there was no such radi cal difference between the poet of Augustan Rome and the poet of Caroline England as to render it impossible that the masterpiece of the one should be adequately represented by the work which crowned the literary labors of the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.