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The Aeneid |
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| Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 480 pages | ISBN 9780140446272 | 01 Oct 1997 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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Virgil's epic vividly recounts Aeneas's tortuous journey after the Trojan War and the struggles he faced as he lay the foundations for the greatest continental empire. Rendered into a vigorous and refined English by the most important man of letters of the seventeenth century, this translation of the Aeneid "set a new, august standard so influential as to be epochal." For his version, John Dryden drew on the deep understanding of political unrest he had acquired during the Civil Wars of 1642-51 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Dryden’s Aeneid (1697), writes editor Frederick Keener, is not merely a superb translation but ‘an important, magisterial and moving English poem’ in its own right, as well as a major influence on Pope and the main eighteenth-century tradition.
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