Memorial: a version of Homer's Iliad
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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.
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Grouping Title | memorial a version of homers iliad |
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Oswald, Alice, 1966-
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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.
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Achilles -- (Mythological character) -- Poetry
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Homer. -- Iliad. -- Poetry
Iliad (Homer)
Poetry
Trojan War
Trojan War -- Poetry
Achilles -- (Mythological character) -- Poetry
Electronic books
Fiction
Homer. -- Iliad. -- Poetry
Iliad (Homer)
Poetry
Trojan War
Trojan War -- Poetry
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Memorial : a version of Homer's Iliad
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Memorial : a version of Homer's Iliad / Alice Oswald ; [with an afterword by Eavan Boland]
Memorial [electronic resource] : A version of homer's iliad. Alice Oswald
Memorial [electronic resource] : A version of homer's iliad. Alice Oswald
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Memorial
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a version of Homer's Iliad
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Fiction
Homer
Poetry
Trojan War
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Homer
Poetry
Trojan War
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