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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.
Table of Contents
1. Ovid and Ovidianism: influence, reception, transformation
2. Rumour, authority and the literary text: Chaucer's House of Fame
3. The equivocal morality of artifice: Spenser's Faerie Queene
4. The metamorphosis of narrative: A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest
5. Untroubled Ovidianism: Andrew Marvell's Ovidian wit
6. The anxious Ovidian: Milton's metamorphosis of Ovid
7. Ovid translated: Sir Samuel Garth's Metamorphoses
8. Absent presence: Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
9. Embedded Ovidianism: Beddoes' 'Pygmalion' and Browning's The Ring and the Book
10. Scriptae puellae: Pygmalion in Eliot, Joyce and H.D.
11. Intersexuality: Virginia Woolf's Orlando
12. Carmen perpetuum: Ovid today
Bibliography
Index of characters and episodes from the Metamorphoses
General index
Product details
| Published | Nov 14 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9780715631775 |
| Imprint | Bristol Classical Press |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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