About the Author:
Adam Nicolson writes a celebrated column for The Sunday Telegraph. His books include Sissinghurst, God's Secretaries When God Spoke English, Wetland, Life in the Somerset Levels, Perch Hill, Restoration, and the acclaimed Gentry. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives on a farm in Sussex.
Review:
'[A] brilliant, passionate, world-wandering love letter to Homer ... If the only real test of any book about Homer is that it should make you want to go back to Homer, then 'The Mighty Dead' passes that test in a blaze of glory' Sunday Times 'Nicolson dusts down Homer for a new generation. Superbly written' Daily Telegraph 'The book that was waiting to be written ... a superbly written account of the poems' The Times 'Thrilling and unsettling ... [a] wonderfully expressive alloy of travelogue, scholarship and advocacy, which broods with heartfelt grace ... Nicolson's books always shine with the Homeric virtues of eloquence, passion, generosity, audacity and candour ... He does them proud' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'A hosanna to Homeric wandering and wanderlust ... breathes new life into an ancient adventure' Observer 'A beautiful study: full of insight, generosity and unaffected passion. The writing is exhilarating' Guardian 'A thrillingly energised book ... it transmits a whole worldview at once decipherable and dramatically strange ... To read Homer is to be struck by what Nicolson calls 'time-vertigo' - and this book is one that holds your hand and encourages you to peer over the edge. To read it is to have a fat pair of Homeric jump-leads attached from Nicolson's sparkling and crackling faculties to your own' Spectator 'As gripping as a thriller and as delicately constructed as a sonnet ... an astonishing tour de force that reveals Homer to be at once as ancient as papyrus and as modern as MTV ... Not only does he have an inward understanding of how Homer's poetry works, his own prose also has the sharp glitter of a poet's eye' Telegraph 'Erudite, far-ranging in time and space, and provocative ...This rich and adventurous book is Nicolson's own odyssey ... [his] enthusiasm is enriching and his examination of the character of the two epics acute and fascinating. Homer matters because he can stimulate books such as this' Literary Review
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