I've taught with the Penguins of the Eclogues and Georgics, and both
seem to work. I don't expect great literary merit in a teaching
translation, but Lee's Ecogues read fairly well, and have Latin on the
facing page. Wilkinson's Georgics is serviceable, and allows me to
make points I want to make, and students seem to be able to understand
them (if we can ever understand the Georgics), if I introduce them
extensively. Both have decent notes, though a tiny bit outdated; the
notes of both can be used by people who take a different take on the
poems.
For the Aeneid I use Fitzgerald, but wish there was something with
decent notes.
Quoting Antonio Cussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
El 05-09-2006, a las 14:32, Leofranc Holford-Strevens escribis:
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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