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Vergil: The Poet's Life Fiction_Gift_Guide hold out your hands/Little byA biography of Vergil, Romes greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy ancient into our contemporary . . . persuasively re imagined [as] a sympathetic, three dimensional figure. . . . The existence of the Aeneid is cause for gratitude. So is Ms. Rudens sensitive, celebratory portrait of its maker.Willard Spiegelman, Wall Street Journal The Aeneid stands as a