The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted HughesThe Roman poet Ovid's best known poem, the 'Metamorphoses', is one of the cornerstones of Western culture and the principal source for all the most famous myths of Greece and Rome. Not surprisingly, it has proved a continuing inspiration for poets, composers and painters alike. This is an inclusive account of the 'Metamorphoses' on English literature over the course of six centuries, from Chaucer to Ted Hughes. |
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Page 39
... response to Pygmalion will be discussed later in this book . Although Arachne is the more prominent presence in The Faerie Queene , Spenser's response to Ovidian ecphrasis rehearses many of the problematic features of Pygmalion's ...
... response to Pygmalion will be discussed later in this book . Although Arachne is the more prominent presence in The Faerie Queene , Spenser's response to Ovidian ecphrasis rehearses many of the problematic features of Pygmalion's ...
Page 48
... response to Ovid's weaving contest , Las Hilanderas , or The Spinners . The painting seems to depict different ... responses to this episode is polarised rather in the same way as are readers ' reactions to Milton's Satan . Some are ...
... response to Ovid's weaving contest , Las Hilanderas , or The Spinners . The painting seems to depict different ... responses to this episode is polarised rather in the same way as are readers ' reactions to Milton's Satan . Some are ...
Page 107
... response . Ovid's sly undercutting of divinity would be quite inappropriate in Milton's Heaven , but consorts well with the persistent undermining and belit- tling of the fallen angels . Further details from Metamorphoses I are ...
... response . Ovid's sly undercutting of divinity would be quite inappropriate in Milton's Heaven , but consorts well with the persistent undermining and belit- tling of the fallen angels . Further details from Metamorphoses I are ...
Contents
Fame | 23 |
Dream and The Tempest | 57 |
Brownings The Ring and the Book | 155 |
Copyright | |
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