The Georgics of Virgil
John Dryden called Virgil's Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., the best poem by the best poet. The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs, maybe the greatest we have, of human accomplishment in difficult--and beautiful--circumstances, and in the context of all we share in nature.The Georgics celebrates the crops, trees, and animals, and, above all, the human beings who care for them. It takes the form of teaching about this care: the tilling of fields, the tending of vines, the raising of the cattle and the bees. There's joy in the detail of Virgil's descriptions of work well done, an…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-53031-0
- EAN: 9780374530310
- Produktnummer: 1891811
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Latein
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 226 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 308 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 308
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A translation by David Ferry
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