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Ovid

Ovid

Holzberg, Niklas
Goshgarian, Geoffrey M.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0801437547
ISBN13: 9780801437540
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Jun 15 2002
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

The Roman poet Ovid is enjoying a renaissance. Though relegated to the margins in the Romantic period, since the mid-1980s he has become popular again, not only with classicists and other lovers of ancient poetry, but also with poets and prose writers. He himself is the protagonist of a number of recent novels and stories, including Jane Alison's The Love Artist, Derek Mahon's Ovid in Tomis, and David Malouf's An Imaginary Life. Ovid's greatest work, the Metamorphoses, has inspired authors such as Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes to publish retellings of certain of his stories of transformation.The distinguished classicist Niklas Holzberg offers a highly readable, concise yet comprehensive overview of all of Ovid's varied works, giving each stage of Ovid's career its due and allowing no text to be diminished by serving as a prelude or epilogue to others. In addition, Holzberg's own insightful, frequently witty observations infuse the book, resulting in a rounded vision of a storyteller Holzberg finds to be distinctly modern.

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