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 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 m…
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Weitere Autoren: Boland, Eavan (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-08867-0
- EAN: 9780393088670
- Produktnummer: 12647992
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.0 cm 279 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 279
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Alice Oswald is the author of eight books of poetry. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.
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