Virgil (70-19BC) studied rhetoric and philosophy in Rome where he
became a court poet. As well as The Aeneid, his Eclogues earned him
the reputation as the finest Latin poet.
Before his retirement, David West taught Classics at the University
of Newcastle.
"Fitzgerald's is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is
unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a
long time to come." —New York Review of Books
"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
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