Nobel laureate began work on a version of the Aeneid’s Book VI, which describes the hero’s journey to the underworld, after the death of his own father in 1986
Seamus Heaney’s translation of the Aeneid’s Book VI – a version of Aeneas’s journey to the underworld which the Nobel laureate began after the death of his own father in 1986 – is due to be published next year, according to the poet’s family.
Heaney died in August 2013, aged 74, leaving behind him acclaimed poetry collections from District and Circle to Human Chain, and translations of works including Beowulf and The Testament of Cresseid. His family and his UK publisher Faber & Faber revealed this morning that the surprise new work will surface in March 2016.
But whatever disasters befall, do not flinch.
Go all the bolder to face them, follow your fate
To the limit ...