✍ Homer
📂 Fiction
📅 2010
🌐 English
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✦ LIBER ✦
Memorial: a version of Homer's Iliad
✍ Scribed by (Mythological character) Achilles;Oswald, Alice;Homer.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 40 KB
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0393089819
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
"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 little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and unforgotten in the copious retrospect of Homer's glance. 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 narrative and musical repetition, the sequence becomes a meditation on the loss of human life.
✦ Subjects
Achilles -- (Mythological character)
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