Virgil's Aeneid in Modern Verse - Couverture souple

Felperin, Howard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1491878193 ISBN 13 : 9781491878194

Editeur : AuthorHouseUK, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

With its epic models, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid ranks among the greatest poems, not only of classical antiquity, but of all time. It tells the story of Aeneas, who leads a band of survivors from fallen Troy through wandering and war to found the city that will become imperial Rome. Fully equal to Homer in narrative sweep, dramatic power, and lyric intensity, Virgil's epic outshines its models in the passion and compassion with which its characters, even its hero's formidable opponents, are delineated: Dido, the African queen and femme fatale who would hold him back from his mission; and Turnus, the proud Italian prince he must overcome-ultimately in single combat-to fulfill it. Even the gods above are all too human. A fairy-tale? Of course; but the grandest fairy-tale of western culture, whose later literature it has fundamentally shaped. Not surprisingly, few works have been so often-or so inadequately-translated. It's not just a matter of classical Latin into modern English; in itself, that's not so hard. It's the 'aura' of the great original: its classical flavour, cultural significance, and stately poetic style have never been, perhaps never can be, captured. Yet that is what this translation sets out to do. It begins from our side of the classics, from the western literature the poem has so deeply influenced, and reflects the narrative fluency, dazzling lyricism, and distinctive dignity of Virgil's poem in a fresh and unstilted blank verse resonant with English and American tradition. The result is the most readable version ever. The problems and principles such a project involves are aired in an introduction that illuminates Virgil's great work as never before. Enjoy!

Biographie de l'auteur :

Howard Felperin, Shakespearean and classicist, has published several books with Princeton and Oxford University Presses and selections from Virgil's Aeneid in the Yale Review. He's lectured on literature on four continents and held professorships on three. His first publication was a translation of Catullus' poetry, published in the Columbia Review in 1962 when he was still an undergraduate. Long since retired from academic life, he now writes and translates on the Isle of Wight, where Tennyson, most Virgilian of the English poets, used to live.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouseUK
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1491878193
• ISBN 13: 9781491878194
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 504