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Christopher Logue, CBE (23 November 1926 – 2 December 2011) [1] was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, and a pacifist. [2] Life. Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and brought up in the Portsmouth area, Logue was the only child of middle-aged parents, John and Molly Logue, who married late.
Born in England, poet and actor Christopher Logue, a pacifist, served as a private in the Black Watch and was imprisoned twice, once for his pacificism and once, as he told the Guardian, for “nastily boasting that I would sell documents to a supposed enemy. There was no substance to it.” He is best…
Dec 3, 2011 · Christopher Logue obituary. Poet whose War Music was a stark rendition of Homer's Iliad. Mark Espiner. Sat 3 Dec 2011 13.07 EST. 'Now hear this" – the three words that Christopher Logue,...
Mar 22, 2024 · Christopher Logue was an English poet, playwright, journalist, and actor, who was one of the leaders in the movement to bring poetry closer to the popular experience. His own pungent verse has been read to jazz accompaniment, sung, and printed on posters. It is engaged politically and owes much to.
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Sat 3 Dec 2011 17.12 EST. Christopher Logue, the poet and playwright who called himself the "rewrite man", has died at the age of 85 at his home in London. He was dubbed the "Alexander Pope of...
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Dec 10, 2011 · Christopher Logue, an English poet acclaimed for his multivolume modernization of the “Iliad” — a literary endeavor noteworthy for lasting four times as long as the Trojan War itself; even ...
Dec 3, 2011 · Fans of veteran poet Christopher Logue will be equally delighted by his deserved but unexpected win for the fifth volume of his version of Homer's Iliad: the odds were firmly in favour of David...
