Memorial by Oswald, Alice guest recs

Memorial by Oswald, Alice guest recsAuthor: Oswald, Alice Poetry by individual poets Published on 1 October 2012 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom. Paperback 96 pages 198 x 130 x 8 124g Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

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Rosemary (Professor of English and Cultural Studies

An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947

Growing up in London and now living in Berlin

a vivid portrait of childhood faith and guilt

and told with such engaging directness

while also unambiguously naming things like white supremacy

201 x 145 x 27 | 320g

75 colour plates

While the submerged streets of London are drained in search of treasure

things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place