CHINESE

The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes

By Sarah Annes Brown

Book information

Publisher
Duckworth
Year
1999
ISBN
9781472540324, 9780715631775
Language
chinese
Format
PDF
Filesize
55 MB (57533371 bytes)
Pages
\249
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 18:04:18

Description

Ovid’s Metamorphoses is one of the cornerstones of Western culture, the principal source for all the most famous myths of Greece and Rome, and a continuing inspiration for poets, composers and painters alike. This, inclusive account of this hugely important poem’s influence on English literature, charts the reception of the poem over the course of six centuries from Chaucer’s enigmatic House of Fame to Ted Hughes’ Tales from Ovid. As well as offering reassessments of works whose debt to Ovid has long been recognised, such as The Tempest and Paradise Lost, Sarah Brown shows that Ovidianism is an even more complex and pervasive phenomenon in English literature than has previously been recognised, and may be found in the most unexpected places.

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