Ovid's Changing Worlds
Author | : Raphael Lyne |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2001 |
ISBN-10 | : 0198187041 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780198187042 |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Download or read book Ovid's Changing Worlds written by Raphael Lyne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's Changing Worlds looks at the four most important English imitations of the Metamorphoses in the English Renaissance: the translations of Arthur Golding and George Sandys, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. It sheds new light on dealings with the classics in the period and shows that the emergence of English literature was a complex and fascinating process.