Name: the georgics of virgil
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Author: Ferry, David
ISBN: 9780374530310

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Translated by

David Ferry

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Author

Ferry, David

Language

English

Pages

202

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.0 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

0374530319

ISBN13

9780374530310

Synopsis "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, 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.

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