Georgics of Virgil: Bilingual Edition

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Georgics of Virgil: Bilingual Edition
Authors and Contributors      By (author) David Ferry
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 208,Width 138
Category/GenrePoetry
Poetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780374530310
ClassificationsDewey:873.01
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Publication Date 2 May 2006
Publication Country United States

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.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

"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