Alice Oswald
To retrieve the ,Iliad,'s' energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief biographies of the minor war-dead, most of whom are little more than names, but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably - and unforgotten - in the copiousness of Homer's glance. Alice Oswald has won several literary awards.
Poetry,Classics,Fantasy,Mythology,Fiction,War,Historical,Historical Fiction,Literature,Literature,21st Century,European Literature,British Literature,History,Ancient History
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad