Time for some brutal honesty. Can you read Latin? Do you have a Master’s in English… or at the very least some layman’s understanding of linguistics? No? Me neither. And that means that The Georgics probably won’t really be appreciated by us.I bought the bilingual edition because I wanted to se...
A collection, literally a “selection”, of ten poems by Virgil. More scholarly individuals see The Eclogues reverberate in works by Marlowe, Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley and Frost to name just a few. To those who approach the poems without such depth to compare, they still possess a charm that seeps...