Yet one of our favorite dubious fun facts—a Trojan Horse that has snuck into a handful of trivia books—concerns Virgil, the ...

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 ...

Being the work of an award-winning poet, Ferry's "Aeneid" can be read with excitement and pleasure — but so can all those other translations. What really matters is to read at least one of them.

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

In the “Fourth Eclogue,” in particular, “Virgil was not a prophet as Isaiah was,” yet the poet “gave form to a myth which had direct kinship with the angels, patriarchs, and prophets.

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 ...

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.

David Ferry, Poet and Translator Who Won Acclaim Late in Life, Dies at 99 After nearly 40 years as a professor, he began a new career writing poems and translating classics.

As memories slip away from her husband, Bob, Saralee takes comfort that the couple's love survives in little everyday ways.