Spring 2008 Booklist
December 22, 2007
The Spring 2008 Booklist with recommended editions:
- Hesiod, Works and Days & Theogony, trans. Lattimore (Univ of Michigan Press)*
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. Warner (Penguin)
- Anonymous, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. Raffel (Signet)**
- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ed. Braunmuller (Pelican/Penguin)
- Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet, ed. Rich (Belknap)
- Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, ed. Lindemann (Oxford)
- John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance (Penguin)
- Elias Khoury, Gate of the Sun (Archipelago)***
Download the Spring 2008 Booklist (pdf)
Notes:
*Consider this alternate translation of Hesiod:
- Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns
by Daryl Hine (Univ of Chicago)
**Consider two alternate translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
by Simon Armitage (Norton); and
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by W.S. Merwin (Knopf)
***Brooklyn-based Archipelago Books website.