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COPY URL : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/1603843078 Book synopsis : Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own Such misconceptions are unlikely to survive a reading of Lombardo's rendering, which vividly mirrors the brutality, sadness, comedy, irony, tenderness, and eeriness of Ovid's vast world as well as the poem s effortless pacing Under Lombardo's spell, neither Argus nor anyone else need fear nodding off The translation is accompanied by an exhilarating Introduction by W R Johnson that unweaves and reweaves many of the poem s most important themes while showing how the poet achieves some of his most brilliant effects An analytical table of contents, a catalog of transformations, and a
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Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own Such misconceptions are unlikely to survive a reading of Lombardo's rendering, which vividly mirrors the brutality, sadness, comedy, irony, tenderness, and eeriness of Ovid's vast world as well as the poem s effortless pacing Under Lombardo's spell, neither Argus nor anyone else need fear nodding off The translation is accompanied by an exhilarating Introduction by W R Johnson that unweaves and reweaves many of the poem s most important themes while showing how the poet achieves some of his most brilliant effects An analytical table of contents, a catalog of transformations, and a
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