Epic poem · 1557
Certain Books of the Aeneid (Surrey)
Certain bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis turned into English meter
Translated by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (printed 1557)
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) →
Richard Stanyhurst’s translation (1582) →
E. Fairfax Taylor’s translation (Everyman's Library, 1907; reprinted 1910) →
Surrey's blank-verse rendering of Virgil's account of the fall of Troy (Book II) and of Dido's love and death (Book IV), the poem that gave English its first unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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