That first unpleasant and magnificent poem.(The Iliad) Posted: Mar 27, 2008 18:10:38
THE ILIAD is an unpleasant poem. For much of its length one intent countenance hacks and jabs at another. Skulls ... probe downward past collarbones to find hearts set beating by mothers whose lamentations are already shrugged into the scheme of things. The warrior attributes plume around the heads of ...