Memorial A Version of Homer's Iliad

Name: Memorial A Version of Homer's Iliad
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ISBN: 9780393347272

ISBN-10: 0393347273

ISBN-13: 9780393347272

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alice Oswald, Eavan Boland

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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.

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/18/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.23" long x 0.32" tall
Weight: 0.220
Language: English

Eavan Boland, author of, most recently, "The Lost Land", is professor of English at Stanford University.