 In 2017 his translation of Virgil's "Aeneid", published at the age of 93, was reviewed at length by the academic and poet April Bernard in the New York Review of Books.She considered that, "he has some sort of uncanny connection to the great poet [i.e.Virgil ]", and suggested his translation was superior to those of John Dryden, Robert Fitzgerald and Robert Fagles, because of its combination of vivid precision, metrical force, and cumulative effect.