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Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Charles Martin
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Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Charles Martin
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by Ovid, Bernard Knox, and Charles Martin
Sales Rank : 30251
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Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company January 30, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 039332642X
ISBN-13: 978-0393326420
Product Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
Product Review
A reader who wants to understand Ovid's poem as a wholewill find Mr. Martin's clarity and tact invaluable. -- New York Sun
Martin's complete text is clearly something to look forward to with high expectations. -- Bernard Knox, New York Review of Books
Smoothly readable, accurate, charming, subtle yet clear.A lucidly fluent version of this most flowing of poems. -- Richard Wilbur
Product Description
"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard."Washington Post
Ovid's epic poemwhose theme of change has resonated throughout the agesis one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Martin's Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English. This volume also includes endnotes and a glossary of people, places, and personifications.
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