Ovid's Metamorphoses
Ovid(Author)
Madeleine Forey(Editor)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 27. May 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
576 pages
978-0-8018-7060-6 (ISBN)
Description
The classic Elizabethan translation of the Roman masterpiece, now in a new edition
This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed-often by love-into flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser, and the character of English Renaissance writing.
This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed-often by love-into flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser, and the character of English Renaissance writing.
Reviews / Votes
My research for a new book on the Elizabethans has made me all the more convinced of the centrality of translation to the flowering of English literature in that period . . . Especially welcome . . . [is] the Arthur Golding translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses . . . expertly edited by Madeleine Forey. -- Jonathan Bate * Times Literary Supplement * This is a very welcome publication of a major renaissance work, in a clear and well-organised edition, with a helpful critical introduction. It restores a widely-read work to its appropriate position as an affordable staple. -- Raphael Lyne * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-7060-6 (9780801870606)
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Persons
Madeleine Forey is a fellow of Oxford University's All Souls College.