Ovid's Poetry of Exile

by Ovid (Author)

New
Illustrated
1989
$35.06

Someone clever, passionate, and heartbroken comes very near us, and I think it is Ovid. I found it impossible to stop reading these poems. And poems they are. --Richard Wilbur.

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Someone clever, passionate, and heartbroken comes very near us, and I think it is Ovid. I found it impossible to stop reading these poems. And poems they are. --Richard Wilbur.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 256
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: JHUP
Published: 01 Oct 1989
ISBN 10: 9780801839
ISBN 13: 9780801839160
Book Overview: Someone clever, passionate, and heartbroken comes very near us, and I think it is Ovid. I found it impossible to stop reading these poems. And poems they are. -- Richard Wilbur

Media Reviews

Slavitt is an American poet and a slyly sophisticated novelist. In his free renderings, Ovid leaps to live: a very modern, urbane, plaintive man protesting his exile from Rome... This is grand stuff. * Newsweek *

Author Bio

David R. Slavitt, poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, has published more than fifty books. His translations include the Metamorphoses of Ovid, The Fables of Avianus, the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil, and Seneca: The Tragedies, Vols. 1 and 2, all available from Johns Hopkins.