Volume 39, Number 8 · April 23, 1992
Homer Alive
By Garry Wills
Kings: An Account of Books 1 and 2 of Homer's 'Iliad'
by Christopher Logue
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 86 pp., $16.95
The British poet Christopher Logue has spent three decades working at a short collection of verse based on Homer's Iliad. The project began almost by accident when the classicist David Carne-Ross asked the poet to help make a readable script of some Homeric excerpts for the BBC Carne-Ross equipped Logue, who knew no Greek, with a literal translation of the excerpt (Book XVI) he had in mind. Logue studied other verse translations and produced The Patrakleia of Homer: A New Version (1963).
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