Volume 36, Number 21 · January 18, 1990
Roman Grand Guignol
By Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Lucan's 'Civil War'
translated into English verse by P.F. Widdows
Indiana University Press, 294 pp., $47.50
There has been no English verse translation of Lucan since 1853, but our age is so much more sympathetic to the baroque in art and literature that a new one is obviously needed. Mr. Widdows, as I shall try to show, successfully supplies the need.
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