Love Poems, Letters, and Remedies of OVID
by:
David R. Slavitt (author)
Ovid (author)
Michael Dirda (author)
Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished, ruinous kind, like a...
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Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished, ruinous kind, like a sickness, and Ovid prescribes cures.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780674059047 (0674059042)
Publish date: May 1st 2011
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
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