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The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic
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Author: Simon Armitage
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The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.914
EAN: 9780393330816
ISBN: 0393330818
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2008-04-07
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.914
EAN: 9780393330816
ISBN: 0393330818
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2008-04-07
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
Editorial Review of The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic
"Armitage has given an ageless story new vigor, and has done it with style, wit and elegance."—Literary Review
In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly, lotus-eating, homesick companions; and between subtle Odysseus (wiliest hero of antiquity) and a range of shape-shifting adversaries—Calypso, Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops—as he and his men are "pinballed between islands" of adversity. One of the most individual voices of his generation, Armitage revitalizes our sense of the Odyssey as oral poetry, as indeed one of the greatest of tall tales.
In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly, lotus-eating, homesick companions; and between subtle Odysseus (wiliest hero of antiquity) and a range of shape-shifting adversaries—Calypso, Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops—as he and his men are "pinballed between islands" of adversity. One of the most individual voices of his generation, Armitage revitalizes our sense of the Odyssey as oral poetry, as indeed one of the greatest of tall tales.