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All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten

10 best books like All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten (Christopher Logue): Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses, Achilles, The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War, The Songs of the Kings, The Fall of Troy, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Poems of the Late T'ang

Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
AuthorOvid
ISBN0374525870
A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses...
Achilles
AuthorElizabeth Cook
ISBN0312311109
Born of god and king and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters—among them Hector, Helen, Penthiselaia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings...
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374522898
The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because...
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
AuthorAlice Oswald
ISBN0571274161
The poetry of Alice Oswald is preternatural…preternaturally gorgeous, preternaturally immediate and relevant and precise. We want to sink into that language and be in that bright place—perhaps not to live (among the flashing swords), but to die there, amongst one’s brethren, with poetry...
The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
AuthorCaroline Alexander
The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legend—but Homer’s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a debilitating, waning ten-year campaign. The story’s focus is not on drama but on a bitter truth: both armies want nothing more than to stop fighting and go home....
The Songs of the Kings
AuthorBarry Unsworth
ISBN0393322831
"Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth; and if the wind continued the dream would crumble." As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood...
The Fall of Troy
AuthorPeter Ackroyd
ISBN0701179112
Fakes, forgeries and plagiarism abound in Ackroyd’s brilliant historical novel, set in the 19th century during the excavation of the Bronze Age site of Troy.

“I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the place where Hector and Achilles fought. To show you the palace of...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey
AuthorAnne Brontë
ISBN0862250560
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a superb novel! It had a gripping plot that grabbed me from the first page and didn't let up until the last page. I liked the narrative style of the novel too. Anne Bronte uses the perspectives of her two primary protagonists, Mr. Gilbert Markham, and Mrs. Helen Graham, extraordinarily...
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
AuthorHelen Vendler
ISBN0674637127
Helen Vendler, widely regarded as an accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as a guide to some of the best-known poems in the English language.

In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler interprets imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing...
Poems of the Late T'ang
AuthorA.C. Graham
ISBN1590172574
Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable...
Helen in Egypt
AuthorH.D.
ISBN0811205444
The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode,...
Selected Poems
AuthorGiuseppe Ungaretti
ISBN0374528926
A major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poets

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is renowned and loved for its powerful insight...
Poets in a Landscape
AuthorGilbert Highet
ISBN1853753017
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
Complete Works of George Eliot
AuthorGeorge Eliot
This is the definitive Kindle Edition of the great writer's works, with every published novel, short story, novella and poem written by George Eliot, with beautiful illustrations and bonus texts.

Including:
* ALL 7 novels, with contents tables
* annotated with concise introductions...
Complete Works of Thomas Hardy
AuthorThomas Hardy
Features:
* illustrated with countless images relating to Hardy and his works
* annotated with concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* each novel has its own contents table - easily navigate between chapters!
* many of the novels are fully illustrated with original...
Aeneid Book VI
AuthorVirgil
ISBN0374104190
A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century

In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of...
Waking
AuthorRon Rash
ISBN1891885847
I was eager to read this most recent (2011) book of collected poetry by Ron Rash after reading his first three poetry offerings in recent weeks. Rash started with poetry and reviewers of his more recent novels note that as they praise his poetic use of words in his prose work. He is rapidly becoming more...
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
AuthorAnne Carson
ISBN1590171802
i hear lots of people claim to ‘love the translation’ of a text of which they don't speak the language of the original. am i stupid for wondering, if you don’t speak the original, how you can judge the translation? I mean, you can admit to digging many aspects of the language... but the translation?...
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