Georgics of Virgil
Bilingual Edition
$48.07
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
17 July 2006
Summary
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 teachin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374530310 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0374530319 |
| Author: | David Ferry |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 17 July 2006 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 143mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
“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
David Ferry is the translator of Gilgamesh (1992), The Odes of Horace (1998), The Eclogues of Virgil (1999), and The Epistles of Horace (2001), winner of the Landon Translation Prize.
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