Christopher Logue

War Music

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Poet to Poet
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 99mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 76g
• ISBN-13: 9780571203833
• ISBN-10: 0571203833
• Artikelnr.: 21101997

Autorenporträt

Christopher Logue (1926-2011) was educated at Prior Park College, Bath, and at Portsmouth Grammar School. He served as a Private in the Black Watch and spent sixteen months in an army prison. His publications include several volumes of poetry and a pornographic novel. The first collection of his reinterpretation of Homer's Iliad, War Music, was shortlisted for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize; Cold Calls, the fifth instalment of the War Music series, won the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 2005. The first complete single-volume edition of War Music, including previously unpublished material, was published in 2015.

Rezensionen

One of the most remarkable and idiosyncratic works of postwar British literature. To read War Music in its entirety is to appreciate just what an impact it has had on anglophone poets. Both Robert Fagles' superb translations of Homer and Alice Oswald's haunting and lapidary Memorial (2012) recognisably carry its stamp. All of them bear witness to the remarkable fact that still, after more than two and a half millennia, the Iliad continues to rank as the most heart-stopping, the most terrifying, the most tragic poem ever written. Tom Holland The Times