Edward McCrorie
Encyclopedia
Edward McCrorie is a professor of English
at Providence College
and is the author of collections of poetry and translator of Latin and Greek poetry.
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
at Providence College
Providence College
Providence College is a private, coeducational, Catholic university located about two miles west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States, the state's capital city. With a 2010–2011 enrollment of 3,850 undergraduate students and 735 graduate students, the College specializes in academic...
and is the author of collections of poetry and translator of Latin and Greek poetry.
Works
- After a Cremation (poems), Thorp Springs Press, 1974
- The Aeneid of VirgilAeneidThe Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines in dactylic hexameter...
(translation), Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1991 - Needle Man (poems), Chestnut Hills Press, 1999
- The Odyssey of HomerOdysseyThe Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature...
(translation), The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004