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Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Tales from OvidThe "Metamorphoses" of Ovid stands with the great works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry. Ted Hughes, one of the most admired and widely read of living poets, has now translated twenty-four stories from the "Metamorphoses." The result, "Tales from Ovid," is the most vigorous and supple twentieth-century version of this foundational work, at once a delight for the La...
Full description- Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
- Published: 30 March 1999
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9780374525873 ISBN 10: 0374525870
- Sales rank: 98,762
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Full description for Tales from Ovid
The "Metamorphoses" of Ovid stands with the great works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry. Ted Hughes, one of the most admired and widely read of living poets, has now translated twenty-four stories from the "Metamorphoses." The result, "Tales from Ovid," is the most vigorous and supple twentieth-century version of this foundational work, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader. Writing in clear, emphatic unrhymed verse, Ted Hughes has transformed Ovid's Latin poetry into English, giving us not only a new Ovid but a substantial new work of poetry in English, and one that speaks to our time much the way the Latin "Metamorphoses" did to Ovid's.
