The Metamorphoses (Paperback, Reissue)

This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as ‘the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare’s)’.

Ovid’s deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love – into flowers, trees, stones and stars. Golding’s robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser and the character of English Renaissance writing.

•With an introduction, modernized text, chronology, explanatory notes and glossary•

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2002
First published:	March 2002
Authors:	Ovid
Editors:	Madeleine Forey
Translators:	Arthur Golding
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	535
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-042230-6
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Latin
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-14-042230-7
Barcode:	9780140422306

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