Theodor Haecker’s Virgil, Father of the West (1934), once so influential that T. S. Eliot based an entire lecture upon it, has now passed its 80th anniversary almost without notice. Yet, as if the ...

Street poet Virgil Killebrew talks about his poetry and experience at the Million Man March on it's 25th anniversary.

Best known for his epic poem, “The Aeneid”, Virgil (70 – 19 BC) was regarded by Romans as a national treasure. His work reflects the relief he felt as civil war ended and the rule of Augustus began.

David Ferry, a renowned poet and translator who transported modern readers to Gilgamesh’s Mesopotamia, to Horace and Virgil’s Rome and to a startling literary landscape that was entirely his own, ...

The first great poet after Rome’s clear emergence as the classical superpower, Lucretius presents a problem–what we might call the anxiety of influence–for all the Augustan Golden Age poets: Horace, ...