ARGONAUT BOOKS

The Aeneid may come to be recognized as his finest translation of all, as well as the one most personal to him.It is Heaney's passport to the literary future. Not that he needed one.Irish Times - Bernard O'DonoghueVirgil's classic was a touchstone to Heaney throughout his life. It is hard to think of a more apt way to mark the end of his own poetic journey than this posthumously published translation, worked on for 30 years, featuring Aeneas's journey into the underworld.GuardianWith characteristic brilliance, Heaney refuses to let words and images not earn their keep. Some of his felicities h...Read More