Epic poem · 1582
The First Four Books of the Aeneid (Stanyhurst)
Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Aeneis translated intoo English heroical verse
Translated by Richard Stanyhurst (1582)
Also in this archive
John Conington’s translation (Macmillan school edition, 1910) →
Gavin Douglas’s translation (completed 1513; printed 1553) →
John Dryden’s translation (1697) →
J. W. Mackail’s translation (1885) →
William Morris’s translation (1876; third impression 1900) →
James Rhoades’s translation (Longmans, Green, 1893–96; one-volume edition 1907) →
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey’s translation (printed 1557) →
E. Fairfax Taylor’s translation (Everyman's Library, 1907; reprinted 1910) →
An extravagant attempt to naturalise Latin hexameter in English, famous for its coinages and its defiant spelling, covering Aeneas's storm-tossed landing, the fall of Troy, his wanderings and the tragedy of Dido.
Contents · 4 parts