Georgics / Virgil ; translated by Peter Fallon ; with an introduction and notes by Elaine Fantham.

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Virgil [author.]

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Latin Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xl, 109 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191513107
0191513105
019181945X
9780191819452
1280762950
9781280762956
9786610762958
6610762953

Uniform titles:

Georgica. English (Fallon)

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Georgics.DDC classification:

873/.01

LOC classification:

PA6807.G4 F35 2006eb

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Contents:

Introduction; Translator's Note; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Virgil; GEORGICS; BOOK ONE: 'What tickles the corn to laugh out loud . . .'; BOOK TWO: 'Thus far I have been singing of working the land . . .'; BOOK THREE: 'You too, Pales, great goddess of the folds . . .'; BOOK FOUR: 'Which brings me to heaven's gift of honey . . .'; Explanatory Notes.

Summary: 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. - ;'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.

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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. - ;'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.