<p>Volumes V and VI concern Dryden's most involved labor: the complete translation of Virgil into English. Volume V contains The Pastorals and The Georgics in their entirety; the first six books of The Aeneid is contained as well.</p>
Works of John Dryden. Volume 6 Poems: The Works of Virgil in English 1697
โ Scribed by William Frost (editor)
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 654
- Edition
- Reprint 2020
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Volumes V and VI concern Dryden's most involved labor: the complete translation of Virgil into English. Volume VI contains books 7-12 of The Aeneid, as well as commentary and textual notes to the full works of Virgil translated in these two volumes.
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