T Hughes. Farrar, Straus & Giro...

T Hughes. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997

It has taken the last half centenary but finally we see complet the hard labor of summoning Ovid back from the nurseries and the kindergartens where Romantic Hellenism had banished him. An impressive witness to the succes of this revision of the traditional Western canon is T Hughes's timely transformations of Latin's greatest in number influential poet and his greatest in number intricate poem, The Metamorphoses, into powerful and contemporary English metrical language That England's Poet Laureate should have taken notice of this massive reappraisal and plant his seal ...