Pellicer's questioning attentiveness and imaginative judgements do, indeed, result, as his final sentence hopes for this book, in reading as a pleasure in all its dimensions.

The Classical Review

This is a book to read and re-read, which will deliver fresh revelations at each re-encounter.

Translation and Literature

Reading backwards through time from modern to ancient, Juan Christian Pellicer gives us extraordinarily sensitive readings of Wordsworth and Auden, Stoppard and Heaney, which in turn sensitize us to subtleties in Virgil's poetry. Preposterous Virgil is not only a contribution to our understanding of classical and English literature, but an elegant demonstration of their interdependence and mutual illumination.

John Talbot, Associate Professor of English, Brigham Young University, USA