Re: VIRGIL: Loeb for student text?

[Leofranc Holford-Strevens]

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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Leofranc Holford-Strevens
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