The Georgics A Poem of the Land (Penguin Classics) (9780140455632) Virgil, Kimberly Johnson

Product Details:

Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics; Blg Rep edition (February 22, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140455639
ISBN-13: 978-0140455632



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7.7 x 5 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Virgil's glorious celebration of the natural world-brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation trailer plans download free. Virgil 's Georgics is an extraordinary work and one of the greatest poems of the classical world trailer plans download free. This new verse translation captures the rich beauty and abundant imagery of the original, recreating the ancient masterpiece for our times trailer plans download free. "Georgic" means "to work the earth," and The Georgics combines practical wisdom on tending the land with exuberant eulogies to the rhythms of nature trailer plans download free. From idyllic descriptions of hills strewn with wild berries in "vinespread autumn" to warnings of gods and natural disasters, it is at once a reflection on the cycles of life, death, and rebirth; an argument for the nobility of labor; and an impassioned reflection on the Roman empire.

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