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'...meanwhile Odysseus woke up on Ithaca, but did not know it. He had been away for a long time of course, but it wasn't just that; a pale blur of mist veiled everything. 'In this eloquent colloquial version of the closing books of Homer's "Odyssey", Neil Curry has scrubbed the story free from all its side-tracks and digressions so as to leave clear one thread of Odysseus' final journey: from the shores of Ithaca to the marriage-bed where he is finally reunited with Penelope. The text is complemented by a selection of images reproduced from the drawings Jim Dine made in 1987-8 from Greek and Roman statuary at the Glyptotek in Munich.
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Neil Curry was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1937 and now lives at Ulverston in the Lake District. After reading English at Bristol University, he taught at the University of Guelph in Canada and at secondary schools in England. His verse translations of Euripides, published by Methuen and Cambridge University Press, and in the USA by Doubleday, have been performed in may countries. Enitharmon has published his two earlier collections of poetry, Ships in Bottles (1988), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and Walking to Santiago (1992), a sequence inspired by the poet's 500-mile journey along the Pilgrim Road from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela.
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- PublisherEnitharmon Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1870612043
- ISBN 13 9781870612043
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages84
- IllustratorDine Jim
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