The Aeneid Of Virgil Translated Into English Verse By J Conington Second Edition PDF Download

Excerpt from The Aeneid of Virgil: Translated Into English Verse The publication of a new translation of Virgil's Aeneid is a tiling which may not unreasonably be thought to require a few prefatory words of excuse. It is true that the ground has not be: n preoccupied of late years by any version which has attained any great degree of popularity. Previous to the present century, the extant translations of the Aeneid outnumbered those of the Iliad and Odyssey in the proportion of nearly three to one: now, while the press is sending forth version after version, of one or both of the Homeric poems, scarcely any one thinks it worth while to attempt a translation of the Roman epic. But it may be fairly doubted whether Dryden did not close the question a hundred and seventy years ago for any one not, like himself, a poet of commanding original power. In the century which succeeded him many literary men thought that they could improve upon him in various ways; but the verdict of posterity has shown that they judged wrongly. Pitt is the only one of these whose version can be said to be at present in existence: a dubious privilege which it owes to the fact of its having been included in the successive collections of English poetry of which Johnson's was the first. Dryden's style in poetry is sufficiently unlike that which finds most favor in the present day: but it cannot be said to be obsolete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.