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Georgics
Virgil
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Description for Georgics
Paperback. Part agricultural manual, part political poem and allegory, the Georgics' scenes are real and vivid, and the poet-farmer Peter Fallon restores to life the sights, sounds, and textures of the ancient Italian landscape. Translator(s): Fallon, Peter. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 124.
'A countryman cleaves earth with his crooked plough. Such is the labour of his life. So he sustains his native land ...' Virgil's affectionate poem of the land does not admit brief excerpts, any more than the labour of the farmer can easily be shortened. His verse, descriptive and narrative, brings us the disappointments as well as the rewards of the countryman's year-round devotion to his crops, his vines and olives, livestock great and small, and the complex society of bees. Part agricultural manual, part political poem and allegory, the Georgics' scenes are real and vivid, and the poet-farmer ... Read more
'A countryman cleaves earth with his crooked plough. Such is the labour of his life. So he sustains his native land ...' Virgil's affectionate poem of the land does not admit brief excerpts, any more than the labour of the farmer can easily be shortened. His verse, descriptive and narrative, brings us the disappointments as well as the rewards of the countryman's year-round devotion to his crops, his vines and olives, livestock great and small, and the complex society of bees. Part agricultural manual, part political poem and allegory, the Georgics' scenes are real and vivid, and the poet-farmer ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
123g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199538836
SKU
V9780199538836
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About Virgil
Peter Fallon grew up on a farm near Kells in County Meath. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where he was Writer Fellow in 1994. He founded The Gallery Press in 1970 and has edited and published more than 300 titles. His own books include News of the World: Selected and New Poems (1978) and Tarry Flynn, a ... Read more
Reviews for Georgics
Review from previous edition 'the combination of truth to the words Virgil wrote, natural vernacular speech and a general at-homeness on the land make Fallon's an inspired translation'
Seamus Heaney, Irish Times
'magnificent new translation...Fallon is the perfect translator for the Georgics'
Bernard O'Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement
'supple and assured new translation'
Jonathan Bate, TLS ... Read more
Seamus Heaney, Irish Times
'magnificent new translation...Fallon is the perfect translator for the Georgics'
Bernard O'Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement
'supple and assured new translation'
Jonathan Bate, TLS ... Read more