The Metamorphosis of Ovid - by Sarah Annes Brown (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the cornerstones of Western culture and the principal source for all the most famous myths of Greece and Rome. This text gives an account of the poem's influence on English literature and charts the reception of the poem over six centuries.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the cornerstones of Western culture, the principal source for all the most famous myths of Greece and Rome, and a continuing inspiration for poets, composers and painters alike. This, inclusive account of this hugely important poem's influence on English literature, charts the reception of the poem over the course of six centuries from Chaucer's enigmatic House of Fame to Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid. As well as offering reassessments of works whose debt to Ovid has long been recognised, such as The Tempest and Paradise Lost, Sarah Brown shows that Ovidianism is an even more complex and pervasive phenomenon in English literature than has previously been recognised, and may be found in the most unexpected places.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>." . .Brown tells of a body that time has changed into a new form: Ovid might have agreed with Vergil, Horace, and Catullus the Britannia lay on the edge of the world, but its writers have reclaimed the exile to Tomis as a perpetual and central presence in English literature. On the whole, Brown chronicles this long process with magisterial perspicacity." -- New England Classical Journal<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Sarah Annes Brown is Lecturer in English at De Montfort University.</p>
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