SAYERS, Dorothy L.

£1,950 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Aeneas at the Court of Dido. First edition, privately printed as a Christmas card and inscribed by the author on the rear cover, "All good wishes, D.L.S.". In this scarce verse retelling of the tale from Virgil's Aeneid, Sayers, a well-known lover of cats, portrays Aeneas as a tomcat and transposes the action to a coastal English setting. Three copies have been traced worldwide.In the early 1940s, Sayers began work on the last grand passion of her life, the poetry of Dante, and she spent most of the rest of her days working on a verse translation of his Divine Comedy. She spoke on the representation of Virgil in Dante's writing to the Virgil Society in 1948. This is the first in a series of private publications that Sayers gave annually as Christmas cards which, in 1948, included extracts From the Catalects of Pussius Catus II.

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