The Georgics of Virgil: Bilingual Edition Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Georgics of Virgil: Bilingual Edition Book

. . . may I delight in the rural fieldsAnd the little brooks that make their way through valleysAnd in obscurity love the woods and rivers.--from the second GeorgicJohn Dryden called Virgil's Georgics, written between 37-30 BCE, "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.Read More

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  • 0374161399
  • 9780374161392
  • Ferry, Virgil
  • 1 May 2005
  • Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 224
  • Bilingual
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