false 27425 1 <div><div>John Dryden called Virgil's <i>Georgics</i>, 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.</div><div> </div><div>The <i>Georgics</i> 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.<br></div></div> 28054 2 5 2006 The Georgics of Virgil: Bilingual Edition total:27|5:17|4:7|3:1|2:2| 27 120 40 2 0 0 false false Fri May 15 13:27:52 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 13:27:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 23 08:50:37 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 08:50:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 07 19:27:11 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 19:27:11 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 02:52:18 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 02:52:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 07 05:48:14 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 05:48:14 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 12:49:38 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 11:50:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 30 10:17:39 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 10:17:39 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Mar 11 14:59:09 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 14:59:09 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 19:17:51 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 19:17:51 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Feb 11 13:46:39 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 13:46:39 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Wed Nov 19 04:26:07 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 04:26:07 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Nov 15 09:06:24 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 09:06:24 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Oct 13 09:46:58 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 09:46:58 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Fri Sep 19 10:37:29 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 10:37:29 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jul 11 13:33:33 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 13:33:33 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jul 05 18:20:33 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 18:20:33 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jun 10 02:58:20 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 02:58:20 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat May 03 08:24:47 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 08:24:47 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Apr 10 08:46:51 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 08:46:59 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Mar 29 21:37:13 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 21:37:13 -0700 2008