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Written between AD 2 and 8, Ovid's poem, the Metamorphoses , gave a great number of Greek and Roman myths the form in which they are known today. Slavitt, translator of Ovid's Poetry of Exile , offers a new English verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses .
This re-reading of the Odyssey - which attempts to map in detail the poem's overall structure - offers insights into the artistry of the mythic voyage and enriches our understanding of Homer's craftsmanship. The author uncovers an extended narrative pattern, repeated in full three times.
The ten specially commissioned poems in this book pay tribute (directly and indirectly) to Robert Fergusson, the poetic master who Robert Burns most loved, and continue a tradiiton of homage while sounding their own contemporary notes.
This text collects two series of lectures that Basil Bunting delivered in 1968 and 1974. Tracing the development of an English poetry governed by families of stress groups from Beowulf down to Wordsworth, Pound and Zukofsky, they focus on writing and hearing poetry.
How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? The author proceeds from such fundamental concepts as author , text and reader , which he applies to passages from Vergil, Horace, Ovid and Catallus. He argues that allusion has no linguistic or semiotic basis.
Concerns the way we read - or rather, imagine we are listening to - ancient Greek and Latin poetry. This book shows how an understanding of the effects of word order and meter is vital for appreciating the meaning of classical poetry, composed for listening audiences.
A study of Catullus's influence on Horace, this work shows that the earlier poet was probably the important source of inspiration for Horace's Odes , the later author's magnum opus. By illustrating how Horace often found his own voice even as he acknowledged Catullus's genius, it guides us to an appreciation of the earlier poet as well.