Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad - Paperback
by Alice Oswald
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alice Oswald, Eavan Boland (Afterword by)Publish date:2013-11-18Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393347272ISBN-10:393347273UPC:9780393347272Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SC53X90DXV
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393347272ISBN-10:393347273UPC:9780393347272Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SC53X90DXV
Boland, Eavan: - Eavan Boland (1944--2020) was the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, including Outside History and several volumes of nonfiction, and was coeditor of the anthology The Making of Poem. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she was one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. She received a Lannan Foundation Award and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award, among other...
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