Tag: Alice Oswald

• MEMORIAL by Alice Oswald | Review

  In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad—the anger of Achilles, 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…

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  March 8, 2018

  Books, Poetry

  Alice Oswald, Book Review, books, Homer, Memorial, Poetry, The Iliad