Aeneid

Aeneid
Author: Virgil
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1889
Genre: Epic poetry, Latin
ISBN:

Virgil's Georgics

Virgil's Georgics
Author: Virgil
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780300119862

A masterful new verse translation of one of the greatest nature poems ever written. Virgil's Georgics is a paean to the earth and all that grows and grazes there. It is an ancient work, yet one that speaks to our times as powerfully as it did to the poet's. This unmatched translation presents the poem in an American idiom that is elegant and sensitive to the meaning and rhythm of the original. Janet Lembke brings a faithful version of Virgil's celebratory poem to modern readers who are interested in classic literature and who relish reading about animals and gardens. The word georgics meansfarming. Virgil was born to a farming family, and his poem gives specific instructions to Italian farmers along with a passionate message to care for the land and for the crops and animals that it sustains. The Georgics is also a heartfelt cry for returning farmers and their families to land they had lost through a series of dispiriting political events. It is often considered the most technically accomplished and beautiful of all of Virgil's work.

Constructing Cultures

Constructing Cultures
Author: Susan Bassnett
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781853593529

This collection brings together two leading figures in the discipline of translation studies. The essays cover a range of fields, and combine theory with practical case studies involving the translation of literary texts.

Miscellanies

Miscellanies
Author: James Henry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1840
Genre:
ISBN:

Aeneid Book VI

Aeneid Book VI
Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374715351

A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the significance of the poem to his writing, noting that "there's one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas's venture into the underworld. The motifs in Book VI have been in my head for years--the golden bough, Charon's barge, the quest to meet the shade of the father." In this new translation, Heaney employs the same deft handling of the original combined with the immediacy of language and sophisticated poetic voice as was on show in his translation of Beowulf, a reimagining which, in the words of James Wood, "created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem."

The Aeneid

The Aeneid
Author: Vergil
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2021-10-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781788162685

On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic, the Aeneid, be burned and not published. If his wishes had been obeyed, western literature - and maybe even western civilization - might have taken a different course. The Aeneid has remained a key text of university courses since the rise of universities, and has been invoked at key points of human history - whether by Saint Augustine to illustrate the fallen nature of the soul, by settlers to justify manifest destiny in North America, or by Mussolini in support of his Fascist regime.In this fresh and fast-paced translation of the Aeneid, Shadi Bartsch brings the poem to the modern reader. Along with the translation, her introduction will guide the reader to a deeper understanding of the epic's enduring influence.

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Author: Fiachra Mac Góráin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 573
Release: 2019-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107170184

Presents stimulating chapters on Virgil and his reception, offering an authoritative overview of the current state of Virgilian studies.