The Georgics of Virgil

“David Ferry’s translation of the enchanting Georgics is for poetry lovers like a drink of water from a country spring on a summer day.” —Anthony Day, Los Angeles Times John Dryden called Virgil’s Georgics , written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., “the best poem by the best poet.” The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs, maybe the greatest we have, of human accomplishment in difficult—and beautiful—circumstances, and in the context of all we share i