Virgil's Georgics

Virgil's Georgics
Title Virgil's Georgics PDF eBook
Author Virgil
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 152
Release 2006-12-01
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780300119862

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A masterful new verse translation of one of the greatest nature poems ever written. Virgil's Georgics is a paean to the earth and all that grows and grazes there. It is an ancient work, yet one that speaks to our times as powerfully as it did to the poet's. This unmatched translation presents the poem in an American idiom that is elegant and sensitive to the meaning and rhythm of the original. Janet Lembke brings a faithful version of Virgil's celebratory poem to modern readers who are interested in classic literature and who relish reading about animals and gardens. The word georgics meansfarming. Virgil was born to a farming family, and his poem gives specific instructions to Italian farmers along with a passionate message to care for the land and for the crops and animals that it sustains. The Georgics is also a heartfelt cry for returning farmers and their families to land they had lost through a series of dispiriting political events. It is often considered the most technically accomplished and beautiful of all of Virgil's work.

Virgil's Georgics

Virgil's Georgics
Title Virgil's Georgics PDF eBook
Author Gary B. Miles
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 312
Release 2021-01-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0520327721

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

The Georgics of Virgil

The Georgics of Virgil
Title The Georgics of Virgil PDF eBook
Author David Ferry
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 135
Release 2015-11-10
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1466895063

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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. 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. As Rosanna Warren noted about Ferry's work in The Threepenny Review, "We finally have an English Horace whose rhythmical subtlety and variety do justice to the Latin poet's own inventiveness, in which emotion rises from the motion of the verse . . . To sense the achievement, one has to read the collection as a whole . . . and they can take one's breath away even as they continue breathing." This ebook edition includes only the English language translation of the Georgics.

Works

Works
Title Works PDF eBook
Author Virgil
Publisher Palala Press
Pages 0
Release 2016-04-25
Genre
ISBN 9781354538395

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Eclogues and Georgics

Eclogues and Georgics
Title Eclogues and Georgics PDF eBook
Author Virgil
Publisher
Pages 544
Release 1898
Genre Pastoral poetry, Latin
ISBN

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Virgil as Orpheus

Virgil as Orpheus
Title Virgil as Orpheus PDF eBook
Author M. Owen Lee
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 194
Release 1996-01-04
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780791427842

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Presents a popular introduction to Virgil's Georgics for the general reader.

Vergil's Georgics

Vergil's Georgics
Title Vergil's Georgics PDF eBook
Author Katharina Volk
Publisher Oxford University Press on Demand
Pages 290
Release 2008-08-21
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199542937

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A collection of ten classic essays on Vergil's Georgics, written between 1970 and 1999. The contributions represent recent developments in Vergilian scholarship, and are placed in context in a specially written Introduction.