In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christine Perkell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
why not order two different paperbacks--one Aeneid, one Eclogues/
Georgics. I should think the Loeb would be deadly.
I admit to knowing nothing about what students want, even in Britain let
alone in America, nor have I ever looked at the Loeb in question beyond
seeing what Goold had to say about some difficulty, but what is being
sought in an English translation: something that gives a reasonable
approximation to the surface sense, or something that has literary life?
I can imagine that the former, if in workaday prose, would be deadly,
and the latter convey too much of the wrong life; personally I find (for
instance) Dryden a lot easier to take than Day Lewis, but that is
because I appreciate seventeenth-century poets more than twentieth, not
because in either case I feel I am reading Vergil.
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
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