a fitting end to a life’s work

Edit New Statesman 06 Apr 2016
Heaney’s account of Aeneas’s encounters with the dead across death’s river is even more powerful for its restraint. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img="">. Anglophone poetry has long been transfixed by the ancient epic ... ... . ... ... He also throws in a few sharp modernisms; Helen’s monumenta, or “marks”, on her mutilated Trojan paramour Deiphobus here become “love bites” ... ....
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