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The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition)

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Availability:In StockContributor:David Ferry (Translator)Publish date:2006-05-02Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374530310ISBN-10:374530319UPC:9780374530310Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCBH867TYQ

The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition)

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,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374530310ISBN-10:374530319UPC:9780374530310Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCBH867TYQ

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--all published by FSG.


Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Bilingual Edition

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