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by J. A. W. Bennett
In his talk last week C. Day Lewis commented on the problems of making a contemporary version of the Aeneia.Dr. Bennett is concerned with the first translation of the poem to be published in Britain-the sixteenth-century translation by Gavin Douglas , Bishop of Dunkeld.

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