Author: Homer
Poetry
Published on 6 August 2024 by WW Norton & Co in the United States.
Paperback | 848 pages, 5 maps
143 x 211 x 39 | 838g
When Emily Wilsons translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017”revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was œfresh, unpretentious and lean� (Madeline Miller, The Washington Post)”critics lauded it as œa revelation� (Susan Chira, The New York Times) and œa cultural landmark� (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homers other great epic”the most revered war poem of all time.
The Iliad roars with the clamour of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world”the fierce beauty of nature and the gods grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilsons hands, this thrilling, magical and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poems deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even œcomplicated,� characters”both human and divine.
The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquitys most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilsons Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
Specially bound paperback edition, with deckle-edging (rough-cut) pages and French flaps.