Michael Longley — The Vitality of Ordinary Things
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Greatest Poem in European Literature
Achilles is mutilating the body, dragging him after his chariot. Andpriam visits achilles and begs for the body of hector. Achilles took him by the hand and pushed the old king gently away. But priam curled up at his feet and wept with him until their sadness filled the building. At daybreak, when they had eaten together, it pleased them both to stare at each other's beauty as lovers might. The killer of my son, no that appeared then in the irish times, e the week of the seasfar. He was blown up beside his daughter the enisculin atrocity on remembrance day. A couple of days later,
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