From Seamus Heaney’s translation of Aeneid Book VI (lines 258-294) followed by a brief commentary from Rachel Falconer’s recent volume dedicated to Heaney’s decades-long engagement with Virgil – Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry “procul o, procul este, profani,”conclamat vates, “totoque absistite luco;tuque invade viam vaginaque eripe ferrum:nunc animis opus, Aenea, nunc pectore … Continue reading By the hovering light of a moon that clouds and unclouds at Jupiter...
