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Aeneid: Notes On The Translation

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Dryden, John; Virgil

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Translation: Dryden, John

Notes On The Translation

Virgil employ'd eleven years upon his Aeneis; yet he left it, as he thought himself, imperfect. Which when I seriously consider, I wish that, instead of three years, which I have spent in the translation of his works, I had four years more allow'd me to correct my errors, that I might make my version somewhat more tolerable than it is: for a poet cannot have too great a reverence for his readers, if he expects his labors should survive him. Yet I will neither plead my age nor sickness, in excuse of the faults which ...

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