The Georgics of Virgil

The Georgics of Virgil
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9781466895065
ISBN-13 : 1466895063
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Book Synopsis The Georgics of Virgil by : David Ferry

Download or read book The Georgics of Virgil written by David Ferry and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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