Georgics of Virgil Bilingual Edition

Name: Georgics of Virgil Bilingual Edition
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ISBN: 9780374530310

ISBN-10: 0374530319

ISBN-13: 9780374530310

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Ferry

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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. nbsp; 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, and ecstatic joy in his praise of the…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.19" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

David Ferry's "Of No Country I Know: New & Selected Poems & Translations" won the 2000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He has translated "The Odes of Horace" (FSG, 1997), "The Eclogues of Virgil" (FSG, 1999), & "Gilgamesh" (FSG, 1992).