A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet Alicia Stallings.
Hesiod (Author)
Hesiod, a contemporary of Homer, probably lived in the eighth
century BC in the backwater of Askra, a hamlet in Boeotia, on the
Greek mainland. As the probable author of both the Theogony and
Works and Days, he is the first self-styled poet in Western
literature, the first to tell us his own name and the first to
advertise himself as a prize-winning poet.
A. E. Stallings (Translator)
A. E. Stallings is an American poet and translator. She has
published three books of original verse, Archaic Smile (1999),
Hapax (2006), and Olives (2012), a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award. Her verse translation of Lucretius' The
Nature of Things (2007) is published in Penguin Classics.
Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - 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
*The Times Literary Supplement*
A. E. Stallings brings Hesiod back to life in her rhyming
translation of Works and Days, 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*
A. E. Stallings new verse translation of Works and Days for Penguin
is a splendid development upon a recent flurry of Hesiod
translation and poetic response ... Brilliantly sensitive ...
Stallings's translation triumphs
*The Oxonian Review*
Mixing rhyme and assonance, this is a Works and Days for 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
*The Times Literary Supplement*
Stallings 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 Works and Days
*Literary Matters*
Stallings 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
*New Criterion*
A 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*
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