The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition) - Paperback

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The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition) - Paperback

Name: The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition) - Paperback
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by David Ferry (Translator)

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, and ecstatic joy in his praise of the very life of things, and passionate commiseration too, because of the vulnerability of men and all other creatures, with all they have to contend with: storms, and plagues, and wars, and all mischance.

Author Biography

David Ferry is the translator of Gilgamesh (1992), The Odes of Horace (1998), The Eclogues of Virgil (1999), and The Epistles of Horace (2001), winner of the Landon Translation Prize--all published by FSG.

Number of Pages: 224

Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN

Publication Date: May 02, 2006

ISBN	9780374530310
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	May 2006
Language	ENG- English
Pages	224
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print