Tales from Ovid
Download or Read eBook Tales from Ovid PDF written by Ted Hughes and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Ted Hughes |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1999-03-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 0374525870 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780374525873 |
Rating | : 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Tales from Ovid by : Ted Hughes
Book excerpt: 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.