Poet and translator whose work was inspired by the classical world
Alistair Elliot, who has died aged 86, was distinguished both as a poet and a translator, combining vast learning with compelling metrical and musical technique and a sharply sympathetic eye for human desire and regret.
Much of his work was informed by the classical world, as well as French and Italian poetry. The long poem On the Appian Way (1984) followed in the footsteps of the Roman poet Horace on the journey from Rome to Brindisi in 37BC.
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