Memorial : A Version of Homer's Iliad (9780393347272)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 112 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 211 x 10mm | 125g
• Publication date 20 Dec 2013
• Publisher WW Norton & Co
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0393347273
• ISBN13 9780393347272
• Bestsellers rank 353,288

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