{"product_id":"2940012481979","title":"The Aeneid of Virgil","description":"There is something grotesque in the idea of a prose translation of a poet, though the practice is become so common that it has ceased to provoke a smile or demand an apology. The language of poetry is language in fusion; that of prose is language fixed and crystallised; and an attempt to copy the one material in the other must always count on failure to convey what is, after all, one of the most essential things in poetry,--its poetical quality. And this is so with Virgil more, perhaps, than with any other poet; for more, perhaps, than any other poet Virgil depends on his poetical quality from first to last. Such a translation can only have the value of a copy of some great painting executed in mosaic, if indeed a copy in Berlin wool is not a closer analogy; and even at the best all it can have to say for itself will be in Virgil's own words, Experiar sensus; nihil hic nisi carmina desunt.","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145371861232,"sku":"2940012481979","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012481979_p0.jpg?v=1763569604","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012481979","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}