War Music: An Account of Homer’s Iliad

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” Slate. Your life at every instant up for― / Gone. Illness prevented him from bringing his version of the iliad to completion, along with previously unpublished material, The Husbands, but enough survives in notebooks and letters to assemble a compilation that includes the previously published volumes War Music, All Day Permanent Red, and Cold Calls, Kings, in one final illuminating volume arranged by his friend and fellow poet Christopher Reid.

Farrar Straus Giroux. And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips, ” writes christopher logue in his original version 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.

A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50, 000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. The result, war music, comes as near as possible to representing the poet’s complete vision and confirms what his admirers have long known: that “Logue’s Homer is likely to endure as one of the great long poems of the twentieth century” The Times Literary Supplement.

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Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad

Through a mix of narrative and musical repetition, the sequence becomes a meditation on the loss of human life. The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year. James wood, the poet alice oswald strips away the narrative of the iliad―the anger of achilles, the new yorker In this daring new work, 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.


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Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation

In stepping stones, heaney acknowledged the significance of the poem to his writing, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, noting that "there's one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas's venture into the underworld. The motifs in book vi have been in my head for years--the golden bough, Charon's barge, the quest to meet the shade of the father.

In this new translation, in the words of james wood, "created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, Heaney employs the same deft handling of the original combined with the immediacy of language and sophisticated poetic voice as was on show in his translation of Beowulf, a reimagining which, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem.

Farrar Straus Giroux. A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the centuryin a momentous publication, Aeneas, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, follows the hero, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, on his descent into the underworld.


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The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander

From the explosive confrontation between achilles, The Iliad explores the abiding, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, blighting facts of war. Soldier and civilian, hero and coward, victor and vanquished, young, old—The Iliad evokes in poignant, women, men, searing detail the fate of every life ravaged by the Trojan War.

Ecco Press. Farrar Straus Giroux. With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B. C. Or greeks, homer’s iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion.

And, as told by homer, this ancient tale of a particular Bronze Age conflict becomes a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war throughout the ages. Carved close to the original greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander’s new translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source—a translation epic in scale and yet devastating in its precision and power.

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War and the Iliad

She composed her own distinctive discussion of the iliad in the midst of World War II--calling it "her method of facing the war"--and, as Christopher Benfey argues in his introduction, the essay was very probably written in response to Weil. War and the iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.

Simone weil's the iliad, or the poem of force is one of her most celebrated works--an inspired analysis of Homer's epic that presents a nightmare vision of combat as a machine in which all humanity is lost. Used book in Good Condition. First published on the eve of war in 1939, the essay has often been read as a pacifist manifesto.

Ecco Press. Bespaloff's account of the iliad brings out homer's novelistic approach to character and the existential drama of his characters' choices; it is marked, too, by a tragic awareness of how the Iliad speaks to times and places where there is no hope apart from war. Farrar Straus Giroux. This edition brings together these two influential essays for the first time, accompanied by Benfey's scholarly introduction and an afterword by the great Austrian novelist Hermann Broch.

Rachel bespaloff was a french contemporary of Weil's whose work similarly explored the complex relations between literature, religion, and philosophy.


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The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Collected and Uncollected Poems Volume 1

S. Eliot’s poems establishes a new text of the collected poems 1909–1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot’s astonishing debut, "The Love Song of J. Thanks to the family and friends who recognized Eliot’s genius and preserved his writings from an early age, the archival record is exceptionally complete, enabling us to follow in unique detail the progress of a mind that never ceased exploring.

This first volume respects eliot’s decisions by opening with his Collected Poems 1909–1962 as he arranged and issued it, shortly before his death fifty years ago. Calling upon eliot’s critical writings, and other original materials, they illustrate not only the breadth of Eliot’s interests and the range of his writings, as well as his drafts, letters, but how it was that the author of "Gerontion" came to write "Triumphal March" and then Four Quartets.

Used book in Good Condition. Finally, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a textual history that contains not only variants from all known drafts and the many printings but also extended passages amounting to hundreds of lines of compelling verse. The more we know of Eliot, the better. Ezra pound Farrar Straus Giroux.

This is followed by poems uncollected but either written for or suitable for publication, and by a new reading text of the drafts of The Waste Land. Ecco Press. The volume concludes with the commentary on all of these poems.


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On This Day in Poetry History: Poems

The virtuosity with which Newman approaches her poems is startling. Joshua kryah, peeking in from the periphery on personal moments both sensational and mundane, Pleiades In her newest feat of poetic innovation, Lowell, Plath, Amy Newman wanders the lives of mid-century poetry immortals, including Berryman, and Sexton, Bishop, their readers, imagining their consequences for the poets, and their shared American century.

Used book in Good Condition. Farrar Straus Giroux. On this day in Poetry History Poems. Affecting and refreshing, a perfect mix of literariness and pulp, On this Day in Poetry History is the latest accomplishment from a poet of incomparable wit and imagination. Ecco Press.


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Classical Literature: An Epic Journey from Homer to Virgil and Beyond

G. W. Even St. Jenkyns's view of ancient literature is Olympian. The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Used book in Good Condition. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, carrying readers from the depths of the Greek dark ages through the glittering heights of Rome's empire.

Jenkyns begins with homer and the birth of epic poetry before exploring the hypnotic poetry of Pindar, Sappho, and others from the Greek dark ages. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today.

We meet the strikingly modern figure of Virgil, struggling to mirror epic art in an age of empire, and experience the love poems of Catullus, who imbued verse with obsessive passion as never before. Bowersock, sometimes illuminating, the new York Review of Books“There is scarcely anything on which he does not offer an original aperçu, sometimes simply provocative, but always worth reading.

. On this day in Poetry History Poems. Ecco Press. Later, in “inventing history, in athens's classical age, jenkyns shows the radical nature of Sophocles's choice to portray Ajax as a psychologically wounded warrior, how Aeschylus developed tragedy, and how Herodotus, ” brought to narrative an epic and tragic quality.




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Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad

Farrar Straus Giroux. Basic Books. The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year. James wood, the poet alice oswald strips away the narrative of the iliad―the anger of achilles, the new yorker In this daring new work, 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.

On this day in Poetry History Poems. Used book in Good Condition. Through a mix of narrative and musical repetition, the sequence becomes a meditation on the loss of human life. 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.

. Ecco Press.


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An Iliad

Ecco Press. Used book in Good Condition. Crafted around the stories of Achilles and Hector, in language that is by turns poetic and conversational, An Iliad brilliantly refreshes this world classic. What emerges is a powerful piece of theatrical storytelling that vividly drives home the timelessness of mankind’s compulsion toward violence.

Masterfully adapted by lisa peterson and denis o’hare From Robert Fagles’s acclaimed translation, An Iliad telescopes Homer’s Trojan War epic into a gripping monologue that captures both the heroism and horror of war. Farrar Straus Giroux. On this day in Poetry History Poems. Basic Books.


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The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Practical Cats and Further Verses Volume 2

On this day in Poetry History Poems. This critical edition of T. Used book in Good Condition. Alfred Prufrock. As well as the masterpieces, others that circulated privately during his lifetime, which were rediscovered only decades later, and love poems from his final years, the edition contains the poems of Eliot’s youth, written for his wife Valerie Eliot.

Basic Books. Eliot’s poems establishes a new text of the collected poems 1909–1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot’s astonishing debut, "The Love Song of J. This volume then gathers the verses Eliot contributed to the learnedly lighthearted exchanges of Noctes Binanianæ and others for intimate friends or written off the cuff.

Ecco Press. Thanks to the family and friends who recognized Eliot’s genius and preserved his writings from an early age, the archival record is exceptionally complete, enabling us to follow in unique detail the progress of a mind that never ceased exploring. Calling upon eliot’s critical writings, and other original materials, letters, they illustrate not only the breadth of Eliot’s interests and the range of his writings, as well as his drafts, but how it was that the author of "Gerontion" came to write "Triumphal March" and then Four Quartets.

S. Christopher ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the imaginative life of each poem. Following the collected and uncollected poems of the first volume, this second volume opens with the two books of verse of other kinds that Eliot issued: the children’s verse of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and his translation of St.




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