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Virgil's Georgics
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Virgil's Georgics Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Virgil; Janet Lembke (Translator)


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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.

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What makes the crops rejoice, Maecenas, under what stars to plow and marry the vines to their arbor of elms, what care the cattle need, what tending the flocks must have, how much practical knowledge to keep frugal bees  here I start my song.

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  • Title Virgil's Georgics
  • Author Virgil; Janet Lembke (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Date December 5, 2006
  • Features Glossary, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780300119862 / 0300119860
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6 x 0.43 in (22.91 x 15.24 x 1.09 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Janet Lembke writes about the natural world and is a distinguished translator of the classics in both Latin and Greek. Her translations include Euripides' Electra and Hecuba and Aeschylus's Persians. Among her nonfiction books are Skinny Dipping: And Other Immersions in Water, Myth and Being Human and Dangerous Birds: A Naturalist's Aviary.
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