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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 03/30/1999
ISBN: 9780374525873
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Review Citations: New York Times 04/18/1999 pg. 32