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Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Eclogues and Georgics written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virgil
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ISBN 13 : 9781483703411
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Georgics and the Eclogues written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil, containing ten pieces, each called not an idyll, populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing in largely rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. The Georgics is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil, with the subject of agriculture; but far from being an example of peaceful rural poetry, it is a work characterized by tensions in both theme and purpose. Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, The Eclogues, The Georgics, and The Aeneid.
Author : Virgil
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Works written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virgil
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil written by Virgil and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virgil
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Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica et Georgica written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virgil
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205367
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Virgil's Eclogues written by Virgil and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics, or Eclogues. The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the Georgics and culminates in the Aeneid, they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry. Poet Len Krisak's vibrant metric translation captures the music of Virgil's richly textured verse by employing rhyme and other sonic devices. The result is English poetry rather than translated prose. Presenting the English on facing pages with the original Latin, Virgil's Eclogues also features an introduction by scholar Gregson Davis that situates the poems in the time in which they were created.
Author : Virgil
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Ferry
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466895063
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Georgics of Virgil written by David Ferry and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Virgil
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Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Selections from Virgil's Eclogues & Georgics written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virgil
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016697859
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Aeneid, Books 1-6 written by Virgil and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Virgil
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Georgics and Eclogues of Virgil written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The Georgics and Eclogues of Virgil".
Author : Virgil
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil written by Virgil and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1964 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virgil
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781298952356
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (523 download)
Download or read book The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil written by Virgil and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Wendell Vernon Clausen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198149163
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (491 download)
Download or read book A Commentary on Virgil, Eclogues written by Wendell Vernon Clausen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprisingly, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary on the Eclogues to appear in this century. These ten short pastorals are among the best known poems in Latin literature. Clausen's commentary provides a comprehensive guide to both the poems and the considerable scholarship surrounding them. There are short introductions to each poem, as well as a general introduction to the Eclogues as a whole.
Author : Virgil
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812242256
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Virgil's Eclogues written by Virgil and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics, or Eclogues. The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the Georgics and culminates in the Aeneid, they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry. Poet Len Krisak's vibrant metric translation captures the music of Virgil's richly textured verse by employing rhyme and other sonic devices. The result is English poetry rather than translated prose. Presenting the English on facing pages with the original Latin, Virgil's Eclogues also features an introduction by scholar Gregson Davis that situates the epic in the time in which it was created.
Author : Virgil
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192837684
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book The Eclogues ; The Georgics written by Virgil and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia with contemporary history. To his Greek model - the Idylls ofTheocritus - he added a strong element of Italian realism: places and people, real or disguised, and contemporary events are introduced. The Eclogues display all Virgil's art and charm and are among his most delightful achievements.Between approximately 39 and 29 BC, years of civil strife between Antony, and Octavian, Virgil was engaged upon the Georgics. Part agricultural manual, full of observations of animals and nature, they deal with the farmer's life and give it powerful allegorical meaning. These four books containsome of Virgil's finest descriptive writing and are generally held to be his greatest and most entertaining work, and C. Day Lewis's lyrical translations are classics in their own right.
Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781371013448
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (134 download)
Download or read book VIRGILS ECLOGUES & GEORGICS W/ written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
