Intro -- Contents -- One -- Benton's Clouds -- Pulp Fiction -- Forced Bloom -- Romanticism -- Trees beside Water -- Preparatory Meditation -- The Rainbow -- After Rain -- Cold Water -- Two -- Postmodernism -- Début de Siècle -- Dejection -- Separation -- "Fade-Out": A Lover's Discourse -- Simonides' Stone -- To Winter -- The City of God -- The Puritan Way of Death -- Three -- Unconditional Election -- Midwest: Ode -- That Moon -- Midwest: Georgics -- Works and Days -- Mr. Whitman's Book -- Humble House -- Ohio Fields after Rain -- Two Clouds -- Notes

Intro -- Contents -- One -- Benton's Clouds -- Pulp Fiction -- Forced Bloom -- Romanticism -- Trees beside Water -- Preparatory Meditation -- The Rainbow -- After Rain -- Cold Water -- Two -- Postmodernism -- Début de Siècle -- Dejection -- Separation -- "Fade-Out": A Lover's Discourse -- Simonides' Stone -- To Winter -- The City of God -- The Puritan Way of Death -- Three -- Unconditional Election -- Midwest: Ode -- That Moon -- Midwest: Georgics -- Works and Days -- Mr. Whitman's Book -- Humble House -- Ohio Fields after Rain -- Two Clouds -- Notes

This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's Works and Days is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose Works and Days discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and ancient historians have turned to Works and Days for its insights on Greek mythology and religion. The poem also sheds light on economic history and ancient agriculture, and is a good resource for social scientists interested in these areas. This translation emphasizes the activities and problems of a practicing agriculturist as well as the larger, changing political and economic institutions of the early archaic period. The authors provide a clear, accurate translation along with notes aimed at a broad audience. The introductory essay discusses the changing economic, political and trading world of the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., while the notes present the range and possible meanings of important Greek terms and references in the poem and highlight areas of ambiguity in our understanding of Works and Days.

This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering a complex system of allusions. Playwrights such as Jonson and Shakespeare developed increasingly experimental soundscapes, from the storms of King Lear (1605) and Pericles (1607) to the explosive laboratory of The Alchemist (1610). Yet, sound is dependent on the subjectivity of listeners; this book is conscious of the complex relationship between sound as made and sound as heard. Sound effects should not resound from scene to scene without examination, any more than a pun can be reshaped in dialogue without acknowledgement of its shifting connotations. This book listens to sound as a rhetorical device, able to penetrate the ears and persuade the mind, to influence and to affect.