Metamorphoses
Will be published approx. on 17. November 2003
Book
Hardback
624 pages
978-0-393-05810-9 (ISBN)
Description
Ovid's epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. In this new, long-anticipated translation of Metamorphoses, Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Portions of the translation have already appeared in such publications as Arion, The Formalist, The Tennessee Quarterly, and TriQuarterly.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1165 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-05810-9 (9780393058109)
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01/2005
W. W. Norton & Company
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Charles Martin was born in New York City in 1942. He earned a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The recipient of numerous awards, Martin has received the Bess Hokin Prize, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Three of his poetry collections-Steal the Bacon (1987), What the Darkness Proposes (1996), and Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems (2002)-have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses won the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.