In 2017 his translationThe Aeneid: by Virgil, translated from the Latin by David Ferry, University of Chicago Press, 2017 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."Virgil Revisited", 23 November 2017 Writing in the TLS, classicist Richard Jenkyns called Ferry's Aeneid "the best modern version...both for its loyalty to the original and for its naturalness in itself."Richard Jenkyns, "In full flow," TLS, February 16, 2018, 15.
