Memorial : a version of Homer's Iliad / Alice Oswald ; with an afterword by Eavan Boland.
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W.W. Norton & Company
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2013.
Available at Main Library (PR6065.S82M4G13)
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Imprint |
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
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Copyright Date |
©2011
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Description |
90 pages ; 21 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Note |
"First published in 2011 in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited under the title Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad"--Title page verso.
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Summary |
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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ISBN |
9780393347272 paperback
0393347273 paperback
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