Tales from Ovid

Tales from Ovid
Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1999-03-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780374525873

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.

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid
Author: Maggie Kilgour
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199589437

Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions, this book examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works.