Restoring a forgotten classic …

… A.M. Juster's translation of Maximianus, the Last Roman Poet. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Whatever the virtues of Walker’s translation, though, we’ve long needed a complete verse translation in contemporary English, without which Maximianus stands no chance of having a place on our literary map. Such a translation has now appeared. Fortunately it’s the work of A.M. Juster, whose quality as a translator (he has translated four other classical, medieval, and modern Latin poets) is closely connected to his skill as a witty, formally astute writer of his own original English verse. By rendering Maximianus into a clear, straightforward, up-to-date idiom, he has made the last poet of the Roman world available for the first time to 21st-century readers of English.