
Ep 15 - The Q&A Show: Answering Your Questions About Books, Reading & Literature
Hardcore Literature
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The Odyssey by Emily Wilson
If you're talking about holmes's iliad, i would say robert fagles does a great job translating it. If you want to read the odyssey, go for believe, the only or the first, the most prominent. One of my favourite translators is aron pucigian. I like em. Don't let yourself get bogged down in footnotes and annotations yet. Cover them with your hand and try to listen to the poem being read aloud. Patrick stuart again, hes on twitter for every single turing day. So i was reading shakespeare's sonnets last night and listening to patrick sturtens' poems. He reads lockdal
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