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After Ovid - New Metamorphoses (Paperback) Loot Price: R616
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After Ovid - New Metamorphoses (Paperback): Michael Hofmann

After Ovid - New Metamorphoses (Paperback)

Michael Hofmann; Edited by James Lasdun, Michael Hofmann

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Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the relentless theme of transformation stands as a primary metaphor for the often cataclysmic dynamics of life itself. For this book, British poets Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun have invited more than forty leading English-language poets to create their own idiomatic contemporary versions of some of the most famous and notorious myths from the Metamorphoses.

Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Proserpina, Marsyas, Medea, Baucis and Philemon, Orpheus and Eurydice--these and many other immortal tales are given fresh and startling life in exciting new versions. The contributors--among them Fleur Adcock, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Lawrence Joseph, Kenneth Koch, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Robert Pinsky, Frederick Seidel, Charles Simic, and C. K. Williams--constitute an impressive roster of today's major poets. After Ovid is a powerful re-envisioning of a fundamental work of literature as well as a remarkable affirmation of the current state of poetry in English.

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Imprint: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 1996
First published: April 1996
Authors: Michael Hofmann
Editors: James Lasdun • Michael Hofmann
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52478-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN: 0-374-52478-5
Barcode: 9780374524784

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