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Ovid The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Metamorphoses of Ovid
- Publication Name
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid
- Title
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid
- Translator
- David R. Slavitt
- Contributor
- David R. Slavitt (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0801847982
- EAN
- 9780801847981
- ISBN
- 9780801847981
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Genre
- Poetry, Social Science
- Topic
- Folklore & Mythology, Ancient & Classical
- Release Date
- 26/06/1994
- Release Year
- 1994
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Item Weight
- 19 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Number of Pages
- 360 Pages
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The mark of success in a poet's career, writes David Slavitt, was an epic that might stand on the shelf alongside Virgil's. But how was a poet like Ovid, with a more intimate, livelier, funnier and more self-mocking sensibility, to attempt such a thing? The epic form was not, I think, immediately congenital, and my guess is that Ovid recognized this himself. Accordingly, he transformed the epic, playing against its grain a lot of the time, and escaping its severe organizational and thematic demands by transforming it into something altogether different. The first metamorphosis, then, is of the idea of the epic itself.
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801847982
ISBN-13
9780801847981
eBay Product ID (ePID)
634002
Product Key Features
Book Title
Metamorphoses of Ovid
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Folklore & Mythology, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Poetry, Social Science
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pa6522.M2s55 1994
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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The best version of Ovid's Metamorphoses available in English today... It is readable, alive, at times slangy, and actually catches Ovid's tone., "No one can deny the merits of Slavitt's version. His English hexameter is a great success -- a supple, fluid, and versatile medium that does Ovid's loosening of the Virgilian line full justice. And at his best he is very good indeed." -- Bernard Knox, New York Review of Books, No one can deny the merits of Slavitt's version. His English hexameter is a great success--a supple, fluid, and versatile medium that does Ovid's loosening of the Virgilian line full justice. And at his best he is very good indeed., "The best version of Ovid's Metamorphoses available in English today... It is readable, alive, at times slangy, and actually catches Ovid's tone."-- Philadelphia Inquirer, No one can deny the merits of Slavitt's version. His English hexameter is a great success -- a supple, fluid, and versatile medium that does Ovid's loosening of the Virgilian line full justice. And at his best he is very good indeed., ""No one can deny the merits of Slavitt's version. His English hexameter is a great success'a supple, fluid, and versatile medium that does Ovid's loosening of the Virgilian line full justice. And at his best he is very good indeed."", No one can deny the merits of Slavitt's version. His English hexameter is a great success-a supple, fluid, and versatile medium that does Ovid's loosening of the Virgilian line full justice. And at his best he is very good indeed.
Copyright Date
1994
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
93-031580
Dewey Decimal
871/.01
Dewey Edition
21
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