Fitzgerald hides his consummate artistry, effaces his own prodigious labor, until the text speaks to us directly, without foreignness of time or place. Robert Fitzgeralds translation shows us exactly why that is. вЂњThis is translation as interpretation, Virgil filtered through one of the finest poetic sensibilities of our time. If the iliad is the world s greatest war epic, the odyssey is. be a very insensitive reader if, once launched on AeneasвЂ™ fateful journey with Fitzgerald as guide, does not follow it to the end.вЂќ вЂ“ The New Republic Robert fitzgeralds translation of the iliad into normal english is beautiful and poetic. вЂњIn this Aeneid Fitzgerald is at the top of his form. Line drawings precede each book of the poem. This is a sustained achievement of beauty and power.вЂќ вЂ“ Boston Globe This edition also features a map, a Glossary of Names and Places, and Fitzgeralds Postscript. 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 VirgilвЂ™s poetry as no previous translator has done. Toby Stephens, Geraldine Fitzgerald, John McAndrew & Stephen Thorne. Educated in rhetoric, medicine, astronomy, and philosophy, virgil moved to. вЂњA rendering that is both marvelously readable and scrupulously faithful. Naxos AudioBooks - Aeneid, The (abridged). Recommend that you read the translations by robert fagles and by robert fitzgerald. вЂњFitzgeraldвЂ™s is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come.вЂќ вЂ“ New York Review of Books

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