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Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad
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| #82655 in Books | Alice Oswald | 2013-11-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.40 x5.50l,.20 | File type: PDF | 112 pages | Memorial||17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| Experience the Iliad again for the first time|By Judith Moore|I have read many transltions of the Iliad and taught selections from it at the university level, but this is something different. With the narrative stripped away and the deaths and similes foregrounded, the poem is much shorter and even starker than the original. Oswald explains the differences in how she treats t||“Luminous. . . . [Oswald] has made a poem that blooms out of slaughter.” - New York Times Book
“Graceful and elegiac.” - New York Daily News
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“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 anger of Achilles, the story of Helen―in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are litt...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad | Alice Oswald. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
