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 ...
Throughout 2026, artistic programming at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart has developed within the all-ecompassing atmosphere of what we have called A New Georgics, drawing its inspiration from Virgil’s seminal ...
*Of No Country I Know* was awarded the 2000 Lenore Marshall Prize from the American Academy of Poets and the 2000 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. His ...
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life composed in 29BC after a civil war, when questions of land ownership were contested. Blessed is he who has ...
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