Ovid Surveyed. An Abridgement for the General Reader of 'Ovid Recalled'.

Language: English

Published by Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1962

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XI, 235 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Rubbed, slightly scuffed and stained, pencil marking on front cover, small tear in frontpaper, yellowed paper, otherwise good. / Berieben, leicht bestoßen und angeschmutzt, Bleistiftanstrich auf vorderem Buchdeckel, kleiner Riss im Vorsatzblatt, vergilbte Seiten, sonst gut. - Ovid was, despite his faults, what Macaulay called him, a good fellow. But he was also a wit, the product of an age of refinement. More important, he was an artist with conscious mastery of a great range of literary artifice; his poetry has a studied movement, a grace, a rich and patterned surface, a music, that have appealed to readers and writers with an ear for technique ever since. In the Metamorphoses he transformed the common stock of mythology into a new world, made real by the detail of his verse and poignant by its music, a world which fascinated Shakespeare, Milton and Goethe and has attracted artists as diverse as Rubens, John Martin and Picasso. Painters, poets, musicians, weavers of tapestries, even makers of porcelain, have drawn on him to the point where his is one of the great (and now unrecognized) formative influences on European literature and art. Mr Wilkinson follows Ovids fortunes; and he writes to communicate his own evident enjoyment and understanding. A life tells what is known of the poet, and serves as a framework to the account of the poetry. This book, an abridgement of Ovid Recalled, is designed particularly for those who have no Latin: no special knowledge is assumed, and the ample quotation is translated into heroic couplets. The result is a delightful and serviceable introduction to Ovid himself and to his whole work. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Title
Ovid Surveyed. An Abridgement for the General Reader of 'Ovid Recalled'.
Author
Wilkinson, L. P.:
Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Publication year
1962
Condition
Gut
Binding
Original softcover.
Language
English
Item weight
550 grams
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