The Georgics of Virgil in English Verse
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Country life |
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Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Country life |
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Author | : David Ferry |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2015-11-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1466895063 |
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.
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780300119862 |
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.
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Virgil Virgil |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2017-05-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780259895336 |
Excerpt from The Georgics of Virgil in English Verse And thou - O thou l - none knows what place in the courts of the sky Thou, Caesar wilt choose, To our cities wilt thou descend from on high, 2 5 And watch 0 er the weal of the world - shall the lands' vast circle adore Thee, as the Giver of Increase, the Lord of the Seasons Four. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Michael C. J. Putnam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Agriculture in literature |
ISBN | : |
The Description for this book, Virgil's Poem of the Earth: Studies in the Georgics, will be forthcoming.
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1865 |
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Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Melissa Schoenberger |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2019-05-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1684480477 |
Like Virgil, who depicted a farmer's scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed here imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor.