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Christopher Logue (innate Portsmouth, 1926) is an English poet associated with a British Poetry Revival. He has too written for the theatre and cinema as well as acting inside the total of films. His 2 screenplays come "Savage Messiah" & "The End of Arthur's Marriage". He was likewise an extended-long-run contributor to Private Eye magazine, when well as writing for the Merlin literary journal of Alexander Trocchi.
Logue was innate within Hampshire. His major poetic function is an on-going task to render Homer's Iliad into a modernist idiom. This function is published around the total of little books, normally equating to ii or trey books of the original text. (A volume entitled Homer: War Music was shortlisted for the 2002 International Griffin Poetry Prize.) He has also published an autobiography called Prince Charming (1999).
His lines tend to exist when short, sententious & ofttimes political, as around his Song of Autobiography:
A end matter inside ''Homer's Cold Calls besides mentions "a pornographic novel" forswearing farther comment. Logue later on revealed inside World health organization's World health organization'' that he experienced written many books under a title of Count Palmiro Vicarion, for the notorious publisher Maurice Girodias.
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