Metamorphoses - by Ovid (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard. --Michael Dirda, <em>Washington Post</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Ovid's epic poem--whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages--is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Martin's <em>Metamorphoses</em> will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English. This volume also includes endnotes and a glossary of people, places, and personifications.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Among the accomplished translations of Ovid in our day, this version of <em>Metamorphoses</em> by Charles Martin--elegant, witty and exuberant by turns, and epic in its span from the creation of the world to the apotheosis of Julius Caesar--should now lay claim to its own distinguished ground.--Robert Fagles<br><br>Charles Martin's new translation of the <em>Metamorphoses</em>, the latest in a 500-year-old tradition, both gives us an Ovid for our times and reminds us that in our times Ovid is everywhere.-- "The Hudson Review"<br><br>Ever since Horace Gregory published his translation of <em>The Metamorphoses</em> in 1958, it hasn't been bettered--until now. Charles Martin's muscular version in blank verse is remarkably lively and modern, the Ovid for our time.--Robert Phillips<br><br>This translation of the <em>Metamorphoses</em> is all that one could wish.--Richard Wilbur<br><br>Martin gets both the humor and the pathos.--Emily Wilson, professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania<br><br>[Martin] has caught Ovid's sly ironies, his un-Virgilian briskness, and his own kind of tough-minded pathos, and has created a completely convincing poetic voice. The translation is a marvel.--Rosanna Warren<br><br>I read right through this translation and so exhilarated was the handling of movement and metaphor throughout that when I finished I wanted to start over.... Charles Martin is to be congratulated for a singular achievement.--William Jay Smith<br>
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