Tales from Ovid
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: x, 257 pages ; 25 cm
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.
ISBN:
0374228418 (alk. paper)
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LITERATURE Classical Ovi | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Originally published: London, Faber & Faber, 1997.
Comprises 24 stories from Metamorphoses.
Comprises 24 stories from Metamorphoses.