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The Aeneid (Hardcover)
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The Aeneid (Hardcover)
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In 2012, David Ferry capped a long career as a poet with a National
Book Award, given in honor of his book Bewilderment: New Poems and
Translations. But he had no interest in resting on his laurels. In
fact, he was in the middle of the most ambitious poetic project of
his life. Six years earlier, at age eighty-two, he had embarked on
a complete translation of one of the foundational works of Western
culture: Virgil's Aeneid. Now we have it, and it is a glorious
thing. Ferry has long been known as perhaps the foremost
contemporary translator of Latin poetry, his translations of
Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics having established themselves as
much-admired standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius,
rendering 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, devotion and death. Never
before have Virgil's twin gifts of poetic language and fleet
storytelling been presented so powerfully for English-language
readers. Ferry's Aeneid will be a landmark, a gift to longtime
lovers of Virgil and the perfect entry point for new readers. "I
sing of arms and the man ..." The epic journey, from the fall of
Troy to the founding of Rome, is ready to begin. Join us.
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