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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374530319
ISBN-139780374530310
eBay Product ID (ePID)50800717
Product Key Features
Original LanguageEnglish
Book TitleGeorgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition)
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year2006
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry
TypeBilingual
AuthorDavid Ferry
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight7.4 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Reviews"David Ferry's translation of the enchanting Georgics is for poetry lovers like a drink of water from a country spring on a summer day. It's refreshing, invigorating, almost intoxicating in the pleasure of discovery it offers." --Anthony Day, Los Angeles Times, David Ferry's translation of the enchanting Georgics is for poetry lovers like a drink of water from a country spring on a summer day. It's refreshing, invigorating, almost intoxicating in the pleasure of discovery it offers., "David Ferry's translation of the enchanting Georgicsis for poetry lovers like a drink of water from a country spring on a summer day. It's refreshing, invigorating, almost intoxicating in the pleasure of discovery it offers." --Anthony Day, Los Angeles Times, "David Ferry's translation of the enchanting Georgics is for poetry lovers like a drink of water from a country spring on a summer day. It's refreshing, invigorating, almost intoxicating in the pleasure of discovery it offers." -- Anthony Day, Los Angeles Times
Edition DescriptionBilingual edition
SynopsisJohn 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.
