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Virgil's Georgics (The Yale New Classics Series)
Virgil's Georgics - The Yale New Classics Series Author:Virgil This masterful new verse translation of Virgil?s Georgics speaksas powerfully to our times as it did to the ancient poet?s. Janet Lembke presents this unsurpassed nature poem in an American idiom that is both elegant and sensitive to the meaning and rhythm of Virgil?s original paean to the earth. — "This work is clearly by a master... more » translator. Lembke moves easily from the Latin hexameter into English verse of loose, five-beat rhythm that well captures that of the original."?Michael Putnam, Brown University