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Five best: works of war poetry
Pulitzer Prize nominee James Anderson Winn is a Boston University College of Arts and Sciences professor of English and author of The Poetry of War.For the Wall Street Journal, he named a five best list of works of war poetry. Number One on his list:The IliadTranslated by Robert FaglesViking, 1990For sheer, unblinking realism, no war poem can surpass Homer's "Iliad." When a man is "skewered . .