| #724792 in Books | Ovid/ Martin, Charles (EDT) | 2009-11-30 | 2009-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x1.20 x5.10l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 592 pages||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Nothing is too strange for the human being to experience ...|By Paige Santschi|Ovid has written a work that all writers should read at least once. The imaginative fodder is abundant. Perhaps it is through him that we have come to know the first shapeshifters. Transforming into birds, snakes, bears, and elements, nothing is too strange for the human being to experience. And no||"Smoothly readable, accurate, charming, subtle yet clear.... A lucidly fluent version of this most flowing of poems."|About the Author|Charles Martin is a poet, critic, and translator. His translation of Ovid’s Metam
In his award-winning translation, Charles Martin combines fidelity to Ovid’s text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original.
Ovid’s epic poem―whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages―is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s time to the present, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid’s wor...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Metamorphoses (Norton Critical Editions) | Ovid. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
