>This afternoon I rec'd the following request.
>
> i would love to have a summary of the poem Aeneid,
> not for a class as i am 52 years old and just enjoying reading,
> but golly do i have trouble with this.
>
>Any takers?
I'm not sure what this request is actually for. I suspect a straightforward
short account of the Aeneid is what's wanted. Say, W. A. Camps, An
Introduction to Virgil's 'Aeneid', or possibly (if I remember rightly) the
first chapter of C. M. Bowra's From Virgil to Milton. I can't imagine
anyone would want to sit down and read in one go through all twelve of the
prose arguments in Dryden's Virgil, or would get much out of them if they
did.
I wonder, has anyone done a 'terse verse' rendering of the Aeneid, like
Noel Petty's of Paradise Lost?
Book I Satan is from heaven cast,
Book II Plans from hell his counter-blast,
Book III Seeks a human to entice,
Book IV Spots a pair in Paradise, etc.
See E. O. Parrott (ed.), How to Be Well-Versed in Poetry, Penguin, 1990. In
the same anthology you can find M. R. MacIntyre's terse verse rendering of
Tennyson's 'Ulysses':
After his travels, Ulysses
Rapidly tired of his missis.
He said, 'My environs
Could do with some sirens.
How boring this unalloyed bliss is.'
Simon Cauchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
13 Riverview Terrace, Hamilton, New Zealand
Telephone and facsimile +647 854 9229
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