Author: Michael C. J. PutnamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Description for this book, Virgil's Poem of the Earth: Studies in the Georgics, will be forthcoming.
Virgil's Poem of the Earth
Author: Michael C. J. PutnamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Description for this book, Virgil's Poem of the Earth: Studies in the Georgics, will be forthcoming.
The Georgics of Virgil
Author: David FerryPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466895063
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
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.
Virgil as Orpheus
Author: M. Owen LeePublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791427842
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Presents a popular introduction to Virgil's Georgics for the general reader.
Aeneid
Author: VirgilPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113973
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
The Æneïd of Virgil
Author: VirgilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeneas (Legendary character)
Languages : la
Pages : 708
Book Description
Latin Literature
Author: Gian Biagio ContePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
This history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the 1000 year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. It offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors.
Virgil's Georgics
Author: VirgilPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300119862
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
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.
Spring Shade
Author: Robert FitzgeraldPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In Spring Shade, Robert Fitzgerald brings together all of his previous collections--Poems (1935), A Wreath for the Sea (1943), In the Rose of Time; (1956)--and adds to them two dozen later poems and a generous sampling from the wide range of his translations.
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Author: Charles MartindalePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.
Author: Virgil