David Ferry, a renowned poet and translator who transported modern readers to Gilgamesh’s Mesopotamia, to Horace and Virgil’s Rome and to a startling literary landscape that was entirely his ...

ON POETRY & POETS (308 pp.)—T. S. Eliof—Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($4.50). When Poet T. S. Eliot married his secretary early this year, the news brought with it a shock of recognition: the ...

He later won praise for his translations of the Roman poets Horace and Virgil, including Virgil’s epic work “The Aeneid,” published in 2017. Mr. Ferry was renowned for his work as a translator.

We can, however, infer things about Virgil from his poems, and from remarks by his contemporaries. Ms. Ruden knows the poet, inside and out (she notes that the common spelling “Virgil” is due ...

—Asinius Pollio was the No. 1 Virgil’s first patron. To this personage, a Roman Consul, the poet dedicated his Fourth Eclogue, prophesying the birth of a child who should usher in a new era of ...

Ruden (The Face of Water), who has translated Virgil’s The Aeneid among other ancient Greek and Roman works, delivers a studious if unsatisfying biography of the poet.

No laughing. No touching, but the monsters can touch you. Ancient Roman poet Virgil meets the audience at the entrance to Hell—currently located in the Reed College Performing Arts Building.