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Author Virgil

Title Virgil's Georgics : a new verse translation / by Janet Lembke
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 114 pages)
Series Yale new classics
Yale new classics.
Contents Contents -- Translator�s Note -- Introduction -- Book One -- Book Two -- Book Three -- Book Four -- Notes to the Translation -- Glossary
Summary Virgils 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 poets. 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 Virgils celebratory poem to modern readers who are interested in classic literature and who relish reading about animals and gardens. The word georgics means farming. 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 Virgils work
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Subject Didactic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English
Agriculture -- Poetry
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Agriculture
Didactic poetry, Latin
Genre/Form poetry.
Poetry
Translations
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
Author Lembke, Janet.
LC no. 2004024962
ISBN 9780300137736
0300137737
1281735183
9781281735188
9786611735180
6611735186
Other Titles Georgica. English
Georgics