The eclogues of Virgil
Subtitle: a translation
By: by David Ferry.
Contributors: Ferry, David.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Pastoral poetry, Latin -- Translations into English; Country life -- Rome -- Poetry
Description: "The Eclogues of Virgil gave definitive form to the pastoral mode, and these magically beautiful poems, so influential in so much subsequent literature, perhaps best exemplify what pastoral can do."--BOOK JACKET. "These songs made a world; it is a world all the more beautiful for being vulnerab1e to the intrusions of power and of natural calamity and loss."--BOOK JACKET.

"A bilingual edition, The Eclogues of Virgil: A Translation includes concise, informative notes and an introduction that describes the fundamental role of this deeply original book in the great pastoral tradition."--BOOK JACKET.