Love Poems: "Amores", "Ars Amatoria", "Remedia Amoris" (Wordsworth World Literature) - Softcover

Ovid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840221097 ISBN 13: 9781840221091

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

The Roman poet Ovid (43BC-17AD) gives an ironic and parodic twist to love poetry in his highly original and entertaining explorations of sexual desire and its consequences. In his Amores (Loves, or Love Affairs) he partly celebrates, partly burlesques, the self-dramatising misery and 'slavery to love' that characterise the poet-lover of Roman erotic elegy. The Ars Amatoria (Art of Love) is a mock didactic poem, a self- help manual that teaches its readers how to achieve and retain erotic conquests. Offering methods to control what is definitively uncontrollable - namely, erotic desire - Ovid pursues all the ironies and paradoxes of his theme in this dazzling work. In Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love) the poet conceives desire as a disease curable by therapeutic advice. This translation of John Dryden (1631-1700) and his contemporaries in a style matchlessly suited to the originals.

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'Melville has worked a miracle. It is difficult to imagine that there will ever be an English version so faithful to the Latin, and written in such sound and engaging verse.'The Times.

'Melville has worked a miracle ... It is difficult to imagine that there will ever be an English version so faithful to the Latin, and written in such sound and engaging verse.' David West, The Times

'a new, faithful yet engaging translation ... Ovid was a brilliant, innovative, elegant, witty and ironic poet, who has entertained readers for thousands of years and this new version will give pleasure to many more.' Day by Day

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In the WORDSWORTH CLASSICS OF WORLD LITERATURE series, a collection of love poetry by the Roman poet, Ovid, which has been translated from the Latin into English, by John Dryden and his seventeenth century contemporaries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1840221097
• ISBN 13: 9781840221091
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256