than two dozen well-received volumes of original Modernist poetry, Mr. Logue remained best known for his English-language "Iliad," a project on which he embarked in 1959 and worked in intense fits and starts for more than 40 years. He would come nowhere near to reworking the 24 books and more than 15,000 lines of Homer's epic, for, as the British newspaper The Independent pointed out in 1991, Mr. Logue "has accounted for one line every three days on average; at this rate he should be through by about 2080."
from The New York Times: Christopher Logue Dies at 85; Modernized the 'Iliad'
then The Age: Poetic translator a rare talent who shone like the sun
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