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""Your life at every instant up for-- / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips" writes Christopher Logue in his original adaption of Homer's Iliad, the uncanny "translation of translations" that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" (The New York Review of Books). Logue's account of Homer's Iliad is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of Homer's tale of warfare, human folly, and the power of the gods in language and verse that is emphatically modern and "possessed of a very terrible beauty"…
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9 editions- Paperback · English · 1988Faber Faber Inc · 95 pages · 9780571152599
- Other · English · 2016Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 341 pages · 9780374286491
- Other · English · 2003University of Chicago Press · 215 pages · 9780226491905
- Other · English · 2001Faber · 215 pages · 9780571209071
- Other · English · 1997Noonday Press · 215 pages · 9780374524944
- Other · English · 1988Farrar Straus & Giroux · 9780374520892
Trojan WarPoetryAdaptationsPOETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPOETRY / EpicNew York Times reviewedTrojan War. fast (OCoLC)fst01157294Poetry (poetic works by one author)