War Music: An Account Of Homer'S Iliad

A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention Picture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 men Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. ôYour life at every instant up forù / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips,ö writes Christopher Logue in his original version of HomerÆs Iliad, the uncanny ôtranslation of translationsö that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as ôthe best translation of Homer since PopeÆsö (The New York Review of Books). LogueÆs account of HomerÆs Iliad is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of HomerÆs tale of warfare, human folly, and the power of the gods in language and verse that is emphatically modern and ôpossessed of a very terrible beautyö (Slate). Illness prevented him from bringing his version of the Iliad to completion, but enough survives in notebooks and letters to assemble a compilation that includes the previously published volumes War Music, Kings, The Husbands, All Day Permanent Red, and Cold Calls, along with previously unpublished material, in one final illuminating volume arranged by his friend and fellow poet Christopher Reid. The result, War Music, comes as near as possible to representing the poetÆs complete vision and confirms what his admirers have long known: that ôLogueÆs Homer is likely to endure as one of the great long poems of the twentieth centuryö (The Times Literary Supplement).

• | Author: Christopher Logue
• | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
• | Publication Date: Jan 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0374536813
• | ISBN-13: 9780374536817