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Virgil's Georgics
Author: Virgil
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006-12-01
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780300119862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Virgil on the Nature of Things
Author: Monica R. Gale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1139428470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan? Should we read it as a eulogy or a bitter critique of Rome and her imperial ambitions? This book suggests that the ambiguity of the poem is the product of a complex and thorough-going engagement with earlier writers in the didactic tradition: Hesiod, Aratus and - above all - Lucretius. Drawing on both traditional, philological approaches to allusion, and modern theories of intertextuality, it shows how the world-views of the earlier poets are subjected to scrutiny and brought into conflict with each other. Detailed consideration of verbal parallels and of Lucretian themes, imagery and structural patterns in the Georgics forms the basis for a reading of Virgil's poem as an extended meditation on the relations between the individual and society, the gods and the natural environment.
Virgil and the Augustan Reception
Author: Richard F. Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-03-15
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1139433512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity alternately a collaborative oppositional reading and an attempt to suppress such reading, studies creative translation (particularly Dryden's), which reasserts the 'Augustan' Virgil, and examines naive translation which can be truer to the spirit of Virgil. Scrutiny of 'textual cleansing', philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, leads to readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism to support or subvert the latter-day Augustus. The book ends with a diachronic examination of the ways successive ages have tried to make the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.
Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic
Author: Joseph Farrell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this important and original new book, Joseph Farrell argues that there is a detailed and extensive program of literary allusion in Vergil's Georgics, moving basically from Hesiod and Aratus in the first book, to Lucretius in the middle two, to Homer in the fourth. This program involves what he calls "analytic" allusion, namely a reconstruction or interpretation of the texts alluded to; and, he contends, the direction of the allusion, moving from Hesiod (and perhaps Alexandrian poetics) toward Homer and heroic epic, helps to clarify the development of Vergil's poetic career, which moves from the Callimacheanism of the Eclogues to the full-fledged epic of the Aeneid. Applying to the Georgics the full range of recent scholarly methodology, Farrell's pathbreaking book will be of great interest to all scholars and students of Vergil, classical literature, and literary allusion.
Virgil's Poem of the Earth
Author: Michael C. J. Putnam
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Description for this book, Virgil's Poem of the Earth: Studies in the Georgics, will be forthcoming.
Carmen saeculare
Author: Horace
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-23
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0521582792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first full English commentary since the 19th century, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.
The Georgics of Virgil
Author: David Ferry
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1466895063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 Lee
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-04
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780791427842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a popular introduction to Virgil's Georgics for the general reader.
The Georgics of Virgil
Author: L. P. Wilkinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1969-07-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780521074506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This highly acclaimed book was, when it was first published in 1969, the first complete book in English devoted to the Georgics of Virgil, of which Mr Wilkinson provides a comprehensive survey. With careful scholarship and shrewd verbal and stylistic analysis combined with sober common sense, he deals with Virgil's early life, the conception of the poem and its composition and structure. He also examines the poem's intellectual ancestry, studies its literary, philosophic, political and agricultural aspects and finally deals with its fortunes from classical times to the present day. Prose translations of quoted passages make this book accessible to readers other than students of classics.
