Showing posts with label Eclogues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eclogues. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2007

Virgil's Georgics

The latest edition of the Claremont Review of Books contains a review of two new translations of Virgil's Georgics. Reading the article brought back wistful memories. I was a Classics major in college and came very close to going to graduate school.

I generally preferred Greek, but among the Roman poets Virgil's Georgics was a favorite, although I enjoyed the Eclogues even more. It's hard for me to recapture, after all these years, much less explain, the atmosphere these poems convey.
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