The Georgics of Virgil

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

People: Virgil

Places: Rome