classical literature
Bringing Homer into the home: how the Iliad and Odyssey became widely available
Henry Power surveys the many English translations over the centuries, from Arthur Hall’s faltering 1581 version to Alice Oswald’s mysterious Memorial of 2011
Flaubert, snow, poverty, rhythm … the random musings of Anne Carson
It is thrillingly difficult to keep one’s balance in Carson’s topsy-turvy world as she meditates on a wide range of subjects in poetry, pictures and prose
The greatest anti-war poem of all
The Iliad begins with a grudge and ends with a funeral. In between are passages, if not necessarily of boredom,…
