The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition) AUTH-7191310 A comfortable life

A comfortable life

in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx

and insatiable scholar

the oldest granddaughter of the book's heroine

The Pillar in the Mountains

The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition) AUTH-7191310 A comfortable lifeJohn 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 in nature. The Georgics celebrates the crops, trees, and animals, and, above all, the human beings who care for them. It takes