Donald's review
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
by Christopher Logue
I knew it! Why did I buy Pynchon's Mason & Dixon instead of this? Why?? I'm circling it in red on my to-read list right now.
Logue is a great writer AND a great actor. His performance as Cardinal Richelieu in Ken Russell's "The Devils" is a thing of wonder.
Donald's review
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue
Donald's review
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recommended for: Lovers of The Iliad/Lovers of Sophia/Lovers of Poetry
A great book. Deserves to be read everywhere like that marvel of translation Heaney's `Beowulf'. A complete re-imagining of `The Iliad', a fierce grappling with the text that sends the reader to the nearest Dictionary to grab as many hyperbolic descriptions as can be found. Psychologically deep, poetically acute, spiritually rich.
I knew it! Why did I buy Pynchon's Mason & Dixon instead of this? Why?? I'm circling it in red on my to-read list right now.
Logue is a great writer AND a great actor. His performance as Cardinal Richelieu in Ken Russell's "The Devils" is a thing of wonder.


