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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 rendering 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.

Tales from Ovid

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    A Paperback / softback by Ted Hughes

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/03/1999
      ISBN13: 9780374525873, 978-0374525873
      ISBN10: 0374525870

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 rendering 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.

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