num_pages: 96
description: To retrieve the Iliad's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief biographies of the minor war-dead, most of whom are little more than names, but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably – and unforgotten – in the copiousness of Homer's glance.
language: English
title: Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
publisher: Faber & Faber