IN VIRGIL’S AENEID, THE EPIC story of the founding of Rome, the Trojan foreigner Aeneas carries into battle a shield elaborately wrought by the divine craftsman Vulcan, a stand-in for the poet ...

David Ferry, revered poet and translator of Latin classics, dies at 99. He won a National Book Award for poetry and was widely praised for his modern translations of Horace and Virgil ...

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 ...

VIRGIL, THE POET OF RESIGNATION. No. Share full article. Aug. 12, 1877. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 12, 1877, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

The best part of Aw, Hell is the walking tour at the beginning—it's not a long trek, though it is heavy on rules: No sinning.

Well, perhaps we owe it to James Henry himself, an eccentric Irish physician and scholar of Virgil’s Latin who self-published several bad (or at least uneven) volumes of poetry. Yet it was Mr. Ricks ...

David Ferry, a poet and translator whose direct, ... including Virgil’s epic work “The Aeneid,” published in 2017. Image. Mr. Ferry was renowned for his work as a translator.