Virgil's poetry was an instant hit in Rome and his work was imitated by Ovid. “The Aeneid” was felt to be technically perfect in its structure and meter. More importantly, however, Virgil was ...

David Ferry, a renowned poet and translator who transported modern readers to Gilgamesh’s Mesopotamia, to Horace and Virgil’s Rome and to a startling literary landscape that was entirely his ...

We can, however, infer things about Virgil from his poems, and from remarks by his contemporaries. Ms. Ruden knows the poet, inside and out (she notes that the common spelling “Virgil” is due ...

In a remarkable, 100-page dialogue between Virgil and Caesar, Author Broch imagines the pagan poet predicting the birth of a peasant prophet and the coming of Christianity. To the horrified dictator.

Classicists will look towards narrative epics by the likes of Homer, Virgil and Dante, while modern critics may focus solely on 20th and 21st-century works by zeitgeist-shifting authors and ...

Ten years after his death, commentators and admirers of Ireland’s Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney are still looking for new ways to measure his life and work. His official biographer described ...