NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with poetry critic Tess Taylor about the publication of the sixth book of The Aeneid translated by Seamus Heaney and published posthumously. The Irish poet Seamus Heaney died a ...

The first translation by a woman renders the tenderness in Virgil’s war epic For more than 2,500 years, classical epic has been the province of men: written by, for, and about them, and passed down ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In his last few years the Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, perhaps the greatest poet of his generation, decided to translate book VI ...

"PEOPLE love walking up a mountain to listen to actors and rain doesn't seem to put people off – I just feel sorry for the actors," says Paula McFetridge, who has spent the last 11 years of her life ...

“The Aeneid,” a tale as old as time with a modern twist, will make not only it’s debut tonight at Minnesota State University, but it’s debut in the U.S., as well. The play is a translated rewrite of ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Poet Seamus Heaney died in 2013, but his translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI has only now appeared. Bobbie Hanvey Heaney retains ...

Fan fiction may seem like a modern Internet phenomenon, but in fact, the genre has plenty of historical roots and mainstream appeal. “That’s the joy of it. There is no fandom so niche that someone has ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. John Dryden called it "the best poem by the best poet", while Dante instated its author as his guide through hell. For more than 1000 ...

Virgil's cryptic hero Aeneas was made more of a 'hands on' lover in the 1962 Italian movie The Wooden Horse of Troy Credit: Photo: Ronald Grant Archive 'No, Virgil, no,” wrote WH Auden, chiding the ...