{"product_id":"works-and-days-penguin-classics-9780141197524","title":"Works and Days Penguin Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new verse translation by award-winning poet Alicia Stallings of one of the foundational works of ancient Greece\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTLS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018, selected by Rachel Hadas and Emily Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The ancient Greeks revered Hesiod, believing he had beaten Homer in a singing contest and that after his dead body was thrown to sea, it was brought back by dolphins. His \u003ci\u003eWorks and Days\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most important early works of Greek poetry. Ostensibly written by the poet to chide his lazy brother, it recounts the story of Pandora’s box and humanity’s decline since the Golden Age, and can be read as a celebration of rural life and a hymn to work. Alicia Stallings’s new translation breathes new life into Hesiod’s work, rendering its vivid poetry for a new generation of classics readers.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStallings's new translation of Hesiod's \u003ci\u003eWorks and Days\u003c\/i\u003e - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed. Toil; corruption in high places; injustice; the prevailing sense that things are getting worse - none of these prevents the Muses' chosen poets from doing their indispensable and soul-refreshing work -- Rachel Hadas * The Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eA. E. Stallings brings Hesiod back to life in her rhyming translation of \u003ci\u003eWorks and Days\u003c\/i\u003e, which mingles farming tips, myths and evocation of the seasons: 'when first the cuckoo cuckoos in the oak'. Stallings's lively  and learned notes make it a treat * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eA. E. Stallings new verse translation of \u003ci\u003eWorks and Days \u003c\/i\u003efor Penguin is a splendid development upon a recent flurry of Hesiod translation and poetic response ... Brilliantly sensitive ... Stallings's translation triumphs * The Oxonian Review *\u003cbr\u003eMixing rhyme and assonance, this is a \u003ci\u003eWorks and Days \u003c\/i\u003efor the age of rap. By translating Hesiod as poetry, Stallings encourages us to realize that the poem should not just be the object of scholarly study, but can be read aloud for fun -- Armand D'Angour * The Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eStallings is a true poet ... She finds enormous breadth and depth of resource in her open couplets ... No reader of the best poetry should miss this \u003ci\u003eWorks and Days\u003c\/i\u003e -- Professor Peter McDonald * Literary Matters *\u003cbr\u003eStallings makes a home for Hesiod in the English poetic landscape, where he can live the sort of idiosyncratic life that he enjoys in Greek, at once timeless and contemporary ... In prose, she makes for an appealing guide, elegant and accessible, intelligent and breezy ... A wonderful book -- Christopher Childers * New Criterion *\u003cbr\u003eA Brilliant rendition of a fountainhead epic ... For clarity and class and prosody that sings through its print, Stallings' Hesiod is unrivaled. Endear yourselves to the immortals and read this compelling translation that introduces with a formalist literary flourish that fragile Western Civilization which still, to this day, nurtures the best of artistic creation * Somerville Times *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083364475223,"sku":"9780141197524","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141197524.jpg?v=1725548684","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/works-and-days-penguin-classics-9780141197524","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}