Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad by Alice Oswald

Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad

Alice Oswald

96 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction classics poetry reflective slow-paced
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To retrieve the Iliad's' energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief biographies of the minor war-dead, most of whom are little more than names, but each of whom li...

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