John Dryden called Virgil's Georgics, written between 37 and 30 BCE, "the best poem by the best poet." The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. First, like all of Virgil’s extant poetry, it is written in the epic meter of dactylic hexameter, a verse form ...

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The Georgics of Virgil Translated by Peter Fallon: "Georgic", the dictionary will tell you, comes via Latin from georgos, the… The Georgics of Virgil Translated by Peter Fallon: "Georgic", the ...

Anthony Day, a former editor of The Times editorial pages, is a regular contributor to Book Review. David FERRY’S translation of the enchanting “Georgics” is for poetry lovers like a drink of water ...