This is the second volume of R. Deryck Williams' classic edition of the"
Aeneid," covering books VII and XII. It includes the Latin text, with English
introduction, an extensive commentary and notes by this renowned Virgilian
scholar. Designed for upper school and university students, the commentary
interprets the poetic methods and intentions of the" Aeneid," and explains not
only what Virgil says, but how he says it and why he says it in the particular
way which he chooses. The outstanding and long-lived 'red Macmillan' series of
editions survived on the basis of T. E. Page's perceptive and exemplary editions
of Virgil, dating from the closing decade