Aeneid, Book V1

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s pre-eminence as a poet is too well known to need any elucidation of course, but perhaps it is worth noting here that his prowess as a translator was also already evident in his  Beowulf.  Heaney undertook his verse translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid to honour the memory of Read More