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This translation takes the heroes, fates, and deities our of the Iliad. All that's left are the humans who lost their lives. After all this time, people still ...
Nov 18, 2013 · The resulting poem is a war memorial and a profoundly responsive work that gives new voice to Homer's level-voiced version of the world. Through ...
Mar 8, 2014 · Eavan Boland, in the Afterword to this epic, writes “Oswald lays the lyric world beside violent death, like someone putting summer flowers in a ...
Memorial. an excavation of the Iliad. The first to die was PROTESILAUS A focused man who hurried to darkness. With forty black ships leaving the land behind
Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad
Book by Alice Oswald
“The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year.”—James Wood, The New Yorker In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad—the ... Google Books
Originally published: October 2011
Author: Alice Oswald
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The resulting poem is a war memorial and a profoundly responsive work that gives new voice to Homer's level-voiced version of the world. Through a mix of ...
Oct 1, 2011 · The lives of 200 soldiers are brilliantly remembered in this majestic poetic reworking of Homer's Iliad, writes Kate Kellaway.
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The resulting poem is a war memorial and a profoundly responsive work that gives new voice to Homer's level-voiced version of the world. Through a mix of ...
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Although ostensibly a "version" of Homer's Iliad, it is Alice Oswald's poetic similes that follow each listing of a death or deaths from the Greek epic which ...
Memorial : a version of Homer's Iliad. In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad the anger of Achilles, the story ...