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The jolting shocks of war.(Virgil: The Aeneid)(Book review)

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From: Poetry
Date: 20070201
Author:Wills, Garry

Virgil: The Aeneid. Tr. by Robert Fagles. Viking Press. $40.00.

When new translations of the Aeneid appear--and they come along at a fairly steady rate--I read them backwards, Book Twelve first, then Book Eleven, and so on. This is not simply because Dryden said that Book Twelve gave him more trouble as a translator than any other. It gives many people trouble. The second half of the book, loosely based on Homer's Iliad, is far less read, less studied, less admired--really, less loved--than the first half, which is loosely based on the Odyssey. It is possible to read the early ...

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