“The war it portrays is real, and harsh, and horrible; but the music is real, too.”

“War Music is at once an ancient and a modern poem, a triumph of virtuoso rhetoric.”

“One can hardly help oneself from singing the lines Logue puts in our mouths as well as our minds.”

“Less a translation than an adaptation. Less an adaptation, in fact, than an original poem of considerable power.”

“The careful reader may notice the care of Logue’s line endings, the sy hum of his iambic pentameter, the lovely repetition of ‘sigh’ and the complex imbrication of sighing sounds. It is through such care that Homer is so triumphantly renewed for our age.”

“[Logue’s] considerable work in theater and film as actor, playwright, and screenwriter nourished the poetry, much of which was dramatic in nature, and also helped make him one of his generation’s finest readers of verse.”

“A work of great virtuosity, something completely original in style and stance…Faithful in tone and spirit to the essential Greekness of the old poem. More than this, the characters who figure are drawn with economy and clarity—they spring off the page…a small ‘triumph of skill and beauty.’”

“I am crazy about it. Haven’t seen such poetry in ages.”

“Never was blood bloodier or fate more fatal.”

“A lasting harvest.”

“Logue’s vivid and excellent poem is…a thorough reconstruction…The care with which the original has been re-brushed is wonderful. The bright colors and light of the Middle East hit you like a hammer. The sighing humanity of the mortals stands above the brittle gods, who just want to see a good punch-up. Logue has produced a mesmeric poem that bears comparison with Eliot.”

“One of the landmarks of twentieth-century poetry.”