Memorial : a version of Homer's Iliad / Alice Oswald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oswald, Alice, 1966-

Standardized Title:

Memorial : an excavation of the Iliad

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer. Iliad--Poetry.

Homer.

Achilles (Mythological character)--Poetry.

Achilles.

Trojan War--Poetry.

Trojan War.

Iliad (Homer).

Achilles (Mythological character).

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

90 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

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.

Notes:

"First published in 2011 in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited under the title Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780393347272

0393347273

OCLC:

865478839