Word: aeneid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Results: Destruction of Troy. However, the Trojans got their revenge: Aeneas, with the help of Aphrodite, his mother, escaped from falling Troy with his father, the blind Anchises, on his back. He sailed to Italy, and there, according to Virgil's Aeneid, founded the city of Rome, which in turn conquered Greece...
...Metamorphoses is a glowing exception. A skillful poet himself (Forbid Thy Ravens, The Wind of Time), Humphries, 60, soaked up a love of Latin from his teacher father, who once played baseball for the New York Giants. Four years ago, when his translation of Virgil's Aeneid appeared, critics hailed it as the best since Dryden's. This is only the second time in the last hundred years that the Metamorphoses has been done in English verse, and there has not been one as readable as the Humphries version since the 18th century edition, for which Pope, Addison...
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...critique of Shelley or who is just back from a look at the tribal habits of the Ubangi. Sometimes, the Third goes out and beats the bushes itself, as when it recently persuaded Oxford's C. Day Lewis to make a new translation of the Aeneid for a broadcast series...
...year, judge one play and one essay contest. He has plenty of other work of his own to keep him busy. A prolific poet (ten volumes published), he also writes mystery thrillers ( The Beast Must Die, Minute for Murder) under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is translating the Aeneid for the BBC's Third Program, will shortly publish a long travel poem, Italian Visit...