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War Music: an Account of Homers Iliad Free FREE WAR MUSIC: AN ACCOUNT OF HOMERS ILIAD PDF Christopher Logue | 352 pages | 19 Nov 2015 | FABER & FABER | 9780571202188 | English | London, United Kingdom Listen Free to War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue with a Free Trial. Please type in your email address in order to receive an email with instructions on how to reset your password. A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention Picture the east Aegean sea by night,And on a beach aslant its shimmeringUpwards of 50, menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. 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" New York Review of Books. Logue's account of Homer's Iliad is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad 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 War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad Slate. Illness prevented him from bringing his version of the Iliad to completion, but enough survives in notebooks and letters to assemble a compilation that includes the previously published volumes War Music, Kings, The Husbands, All Day Permanent Red, and Cold Calls, along with previously unpublished material, in one final illuminating volume arranged by his friend and fellow poet Christopher Reid. 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 War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad the twentieth century" Times Literary Supplement. By clicking "Notify Me" you consent to receiving electronic marketing communications from Audiobooks. You will be able to unsubscribe at any time. Sign up Login. Remember Me. Forgot your password? Close Login. Forgot Password. Close Reset Password. Processing Please Don't Refresh the Page. Play Sample. Give as a Gift Send this book as a Gift! Book Rating. Unabridged Audiobook. Date: February Duration: 5 hours 25 minutes. Similar Titles. This title is due for release on February 11, Please Log in and add this title to your wishlist. We will send you an email as soon as this title is available. Join the Conversation. All Rights Reserved. WAR MUSIC AN ACCOUNT OF HOMERS ILIAD | Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — War Music by Christopher Logue. In his brilliant rendering of eight books of Homer's IliadLogue here retells some of the most evocative episodes of the war classic, including the death of Patroclus and Achilles's fateful return to battle, that sealed the doom of Troy. Compulsively readable, Logue's poetry flies off the page, and his compelling descriptions of the horrors of war have a surreal, dreamlik In his brilliant rendering of eight books of Homer's IliadLogue here retells some of the most evocative episodes of the war classic, including the death of Patroclus and Achilles's fateful return to battle, that sealed the doom of Troy. Compulsively readable, Logue's poetry flies off the page, and his compelling descriptions War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad the horrors of war War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad a surreal, dreamlike quality that has been compared to the films of Kurosawa. Retaining the great poem's story line but rewriting every incident, Logue brings the Trojan War to life for modern audiences. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about War Musicplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Feb 02, Trish rated it it was amazing Shelves: britishliteratureclassicsgreeceparodywartotally- unexpectedsomething-completely-newpoetrymythology. Christopher Logue was a poet. Despite protestations that he knew no Greek, he looked over the earliest attempts to translate the work and came up with something…irreverent and utterly original. Lovers of the Iliadthose who know well the story and joyfully enco Christopher Logue was a poet. King mouth! Damn hard to eradicate him, too. The sport of the gods is evident throughout, despite the bloody gore of a war among equals. They are the gods. They have all the time in the world. And Lord Apollo orchestrates their dance. Millions would give that lot For half the looks that I have given you… Be proud. You have brought harm. Tremendous boys Of every age have slaughtered one another Just for you! So, when they lift the curtains, and he looks—you hesitate. And then you say: Take me, and I shall please you. What do you say? Now in you go. One is never finished with the Iliad when one has read it. Jul 13, Lyn Elliott rated it it was amazing Shelves: classicsbestre-read. As the subtitle of War Music tells us, War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad is not so much a translation as a modern poetic reworking of parts of the Iliad, and as such it stands as a great, if incomplete, literary masterwork in its own right. One of the most vivid of As the subtitle of War Music tells us, this is not so much a translation as a modern poetic reworking of parts of the Iliad, and as War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad it stands as a great, if incomplete, literary masterwork in its own right. One of the most vivid of these images for me comes in this passage as the Greek army prepares for war after the death of Patroclus: 'Now I shall ask you War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad imagine how Men under discipline of death prepare for war. The pistols I see are set on a hair trigger, ready to spring, inlaid and burnished, with a massive kick-back and slow to reload. Beautiful and dangerous to user and opponent. Immediately after this passage comes a reflection on the temporary equality of warriors — at this remove what I read as a War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad indictment of greed and war: 'Moments like these absolve the needs dividing men. Whatever caught and brought and kept them here Is lost: and for a while they join a terrible equality, Are virtuous, self-sacrificing, free: And so insidious is this liberty That those surviving it will bear An even greater servitude to its root: Believing they were whole while they were whole, while they were brave; That they were rich, because their loot was great; That war was meaningful, because they lost their friends. Apart from the principal, named queens and princesses eg Helen, Hecuba, Briseis all women are referred to as shes. War captives, slaves, the women to whom men feel entitled in whatever capacity they choose, are shes. They are part of the loot the men claim and share, not people. The bliss self-righteousness provokes Addled my mind. Achilles eventually agrees to resume the fight, to make peace with Agamemnon as long as Agamemnon reciprocates. No work was more regarded in our times, And nothing failed so often. View 1 comment. Many more superlatives…If you have ever felt intimidated by the unending columns and lists of other translations of Homer's Iliad, give this one a whirl. Logue uses modern verse and contemporary imagery to tell Homer's classic story War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad Helen's abduction and the resulting war between Greece and Troy. The language, the structure, the breaks, the cadence. They are like Nature; like a mass of flame; Great lengths of water struck by changing winds; A forest of innumerable trees; Boundless sand; snowfall across broad steppes at dusk. As a huge beast stands and turns around itself, The well-fed, glittering army, stands and turns. Nothing can happen till Achilles wakes. He wakes. View all 6 comments. Jan 11, Courtney Johnston rated it really liked it. When I first read this book, about 18 months ago, I appear to have been slightly affronted by it. Logue's retelling of one of the central episodes of the Iliad - where Patroclus takes Achilles' armor and is killed by Hector - hits some middle note that just didn't work for me. Some passages I did enjoy - the battle scenes over the n When I first read this book, about 18 months ago, I appear to have been slightly affronted by it. Some passages I War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad enjoy - the battle scenes over the narrative ones: War Music: An Account of Homers Iliad fought like dreaming: His head thrown back, his mouth - wide as a shrieking mask - Sucked at the air to nourish his infuriated mind And seemed to draw the Trojans onto him, To lock them round his waist, red water, washed against his chest, To lay their tired necks against his sword like birds. But I'm going to be honest. I didn't like the volume because I didn't like Logue's portrayal of Hector. In the Iliad, Hector is the noblest of the heroes - loyal son, loving husband, caring father, brave warrior, shepherd of his people.
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