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Tales from Ovid

By Ovid , Ted Hughes

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
1999
ISBN
0374525870, 9780374525873
Open Library ID
OL22599845M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
668 kB (684290 bytes)
Pages
200\200
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its stories with great power and directness. The result is the liveliest twentieth-century version of the classic, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader.

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