Title: The Georgics of Virgil
First published: 1969
Description: In the author's view, the 'Georgics' is far from being tediously didactic; on the contrary, it is vividly descriptive, the first poem in all literature in which description is the chief source of pleasure, a poem written not so much to teach farmers as to delight readers. And it is more than simply this. It is concerned with a way of life, it is infused with deep personal feeling and philosophical purpose, and it is overlaid with a rich texture of religious, political and symbolic motifs. This book is a critical analysis of the poem in all these dimensions.
Subjects: Agriculture in literature, Latin Didactic poetry, Didactic poetry, Latin, History and criticism, Rome in literature, In literature, Literature, Critique et interprétation, Georgica (Virgil), Georgica (Vergilius), Virgil, Rome, in literature
Places: Rome
People: Virgil