Tales From Ovid
by Ovid

Tales From Ovid

Highlights

Greek and Roman

Synopsis

When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding.

He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original, but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poet were somehow the same person.

Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe.

In them, Hughes's supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands, alongside his Crow and Gaudete, as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time.

Publication

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year Published
1997
ISBN 10
0571191037
ISBN 13
9780571191031
Binding
Paperback
Edition
First
Print Length
160 pages
Place Published
London
Language
English
LCC
PA6522.M2 H78 1997
Print
Tales From Ovid is a Greek and Roman play written by and published by Faber & Faber in London, 1997. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780571191031 and an ISBN-10 of 0571191037.
Digital
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