Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Poet Seamus Heaney died in 2013, but his translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI has only now appeared. Bobbie Hanvey Heaney retains ...

Although primarily lauded for his original poems, the late Seamus Heaney—Nobel Prize winner, Oxford and Harvard professor, globally beloved poet—was also an enormously accomplished translator, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Images of gold, fire and transformation occur throughout the Aeneid, but they are significantly concentrated in book 8 as the poem and Aeneas ...

Heaney’s account of Aeneas’s encounters with the dead across death’s river is even more powerful for its restraint. By Josephine Balmer Anglophone poetry has long been transfixed by the ancient epic.

VIRGIL’S Aeneid has provided a wealth of inspiration for Seamus Heaney. Seeing Things, the Nobel Laureate’s 1991 collection, opens with a poem, The Golden Bough, which pre-empts Aeneas’s descent into ...