Tales From Ovid

Author: Ted Hughes

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  • : $32.99 AUD
  • : 9780571191031
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
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  • : July 2005
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  • : Ted Hughes
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  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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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 rering 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.