Metamorphoses (Hardcover, New edition)

"Martin's complete text is clearly something to look forward to with high expectations."—Bernard Knox, New York Review of Books

Ovid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work.

In this new, long-anticipated translation of Metamorphoses, Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Portions of the translation have already appeared in such publications as Arion, The Formalist, The Tennessee Quarterly, and TriQuarterly. Hailed in Newsweekfor his translation of The Poems of Catullus ("Charles Martin is an American poet; he puts the poetry, the immediacy of the streets back into the English Catullus. The effect is electric"), Martin's translation of Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2003
First published:	November 2003
Authors:	Ovid
Translators:	Charles Martin
Introduction by:	Bernard M.W. Knox
Dimensions:	244 x 163 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	624
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-05810-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-393-05810-7
Barcode:	9780393058109

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