Poetic Obituaries: In him [David West] the classical Roman poets,

Lucretius, Horace and Virgil, found a most accomplished interpreter and translator. His translation of Virgil's Aeneid (Penguin Books, 1990) is remarkably true to the Latin, and has brought Virgil's epic to life for a generation of modern English readers.

Unlike his immediate predecessors Robert Fitzgerald and CH Sisson, West believed that prose suited his task better than verse, since "I know of nobody at the end of our century who reads long narrative poems in English, and I want the Aeneid to be read."

from The Telegraph: Professor David West

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