Bibliograph

The Aeneid, Virgil ; translated by David Ferry

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The Aeneid, Virgil ; translated by David Ferry

Language

eng

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Literary Form

poetry

Main title

The Aeneid

Oclc number

969973664

Responsibility statement

Virgil ; translated by David Ferry

Summary

This new translation brings Virgil's masterpiece newly to life for English-language readers. It's the first in centuries crafted by a translator who is first and foremost a poet. He renders Virgil's formal metrical lines into an English that is familiar and alive. Yet in doing so, he surrenders none of the feel of the ancient world that resonates throughout the poem, and gives it the power that has drawn readers to it for centuries. In Ferry's hands, the Aeneid becomes once more a lively, dramatic poem of daring and adventure, of love and loss, of devotion and death.

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