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Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
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Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses Paperback - 1999

by Ted Hughes

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A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.

When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its stories with great power and directness. The result is the liveliest twentieth-century version of the classic, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader.

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  • Title Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
  • Author Ted Hughes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First PB Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-03-30
  • ISBN 9780374525873 / 0374525870
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Classical, Fables, Latin
  • Dewey Decimal Code 873.01

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  • New York Times, 04/18/1999, Page 32

About the author

Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate of England and the author of many books of poetry. His works include Phedre, Birthday Letters, and Oresteia of Aeschylus, among others. He died in 1998.

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