Sarah Spence, Poets and Critics Read Vergil, Yale UP, 2001, 240 p.
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Vergil has exerted a stronger grasp on the poetic imagination and critical scholarship than
almost any other poet. This absorbing booka collection of essays and conversations by such
leading poets and classicists as Joseph Brodsky, Christine Perkell, Michael C. J. Putnam, and
Mark Strandexplores the ways in which Vergils work has inspired readers of today.
The book takes a broad look at questions of historicism: how we read a work written 2,000
years ago. There are not only close readings of the Aeneid, the Eclogues, and Georgics, but also
essays dealing with such topics as Vergils influence from the Renaissance to the present. The
book concludes with two special sections: a lively conversation on translation between Robert
Fagles and Sarah Spence and a "virtual" roundtable discussion in which Spence has woven
together the responses of poets and critics to Vergils poetry.