Publisher's Synopsis
PRAISE FOR OTHER WORK BY EDWARD MCCRORIE
For The Odyssey of Homer:
"The best available verse translation of The Odyssey for Greekless Readers"
-Choice
"McCrorie's translation can be recommended without reservation to the
generations of students to whom it is bound to be assigned."
-The Bloomsbury Review
For After a Cremation:
"Asian and classical powers rumble and vibrate in these volcanic poems,
transforming their cool New England settings as they have since Thoreau's
day."
-The Beloit Poetry Journal
Suggested page somewhere up front: For The Aeneid of Virgil:
"A phenomenal and masterly tour de force, a version of the Aeneid
translated line by line, remarkable for its fidelity to the original not
only in literal meaning, but also-equally important-in spirit and
sense."
-The Joint Association of Classical
Teachers Review (London)
