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War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad

Author: Christopher Logue.

War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad

Author: Christopher Logue.

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Item #: D14159
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2016
Publisher: FSG
ISBN: 9780374286491
"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." In 1959, British poet Christopher Logue began an ambitious undertaking: to rewrite Homer's Iliad for the modern age. At the time of Logue's 2011 passing, his unfinished adaptation had already become a literary... More
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"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." In 1959, British poet Christopher Logue began an ambitious undertaking: to rewrite Homer's Iliad for the modern age. At the time of Logue's 2011 passing, his unfinished adaptation had already become a literary legend while inspiring musical and dramatic versions as well. Here his friend Christopher Reid brings together its separate books and unpublished fragments: Kings, The Husbands, All Day Permanent Red, and the Whitbread Prize winner Cold Calls.


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