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1. Verfasser: Virgil (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006
Schriftenreihe:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
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
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xl, 109 pages)
ISBN:0191513105
0192806793
9780191513107
9780192806796

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