Tales from Ovid

by Ted Hughes

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When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's ... Read more
When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original, but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poetwere somehow the same person. Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe. In them, Hughes's supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands, alongside his Crow and Gaudete, as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time. Less

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File size8.25 X 5.56 X 0.78 in
Print pages272
PublisherFarrar, Straus And Giroux
Publication date December 3, 2009
Languageeng
ISBN9780571258895
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Edward James Hughes OM OBE FRSL (17 Aug 1930 – 28 Oct 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 and was followed by ma...

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