by Frederick Keener (Author), John Dryden (Author)
For his version of the Aeneid, Dryden formed a style vigorous yet refined and drew on the deep understanding of political unrest he had acquired during the Civil Wars of 1642-51 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 24 Apr 1997
ISBN 10: 0140446273
ISBN 13: 9780140446272
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