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The Shadow of Night and Ovid's Banquet of Sense

The Shadow of Night and Ovid's Banquet of Sense

Chapman, George
Luis-Martínez, Zenón

Paperback

Series: Mhra Critical Texts, Book 74

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1781889805
ISBN13: 9781781889800
Publisher: Texts and Translations
Published: Jan 5 2026
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.37
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

George Chapman (1559-1634) is mostly remembered as the first English translator of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and as the author of a handful of plays for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. His poetry, however, has often been dogged by a reputation for obscurity. The poems contained in his first two published volumes, The Shadow of Night (1594) and Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595), have been considered among the most difficult in the language. Yet Chapman perceived difficulty as a vehicle for aesthetic innovation and philosophical audacity. While the two Homeric hymns of The Shadow of Night put their magical-religious invocations and mythological resourcefulness at the service of their author's visionary ideas, the three amatory pieces of Ovid's Banquet of Sense explore the limits of sensuality and eroticism in their pursuit of deeper truths.

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