Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad by Alice Oswald

Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad

Alice Oswald

84 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction classics poetry reflective slow-paced
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Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To r...

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