The Eclogues and the Georgics of Virgil | 
I am drowning in school work today and I‘d really like to just curl up and read something fun. Perhaps like this version of the Ecologues and Georgics, which is so beautiful when I can get past it being called a translation.
“If his yowl/ demands the whole world, who is to say/ he has not the right?”
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Emilymdxn What adaptation is this?? I love it (edited) 6y
Autumnlong @Emilymdxn it‘s David Slavitt. Parts of it are like this and they stay truer to the ideas in the original text. It loses me a bit when he directly addresses Virgil and does the whole metapoetic thing, but still! Lots of it is gorgeous 6y
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