Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses

Title: Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
Author: Ted Hughes
I: 1709815
ISBN: 9780374525873
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 58537th
Number of Pages: 272
Section: Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description:

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 rendering 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.