Author: OvidPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Shakespeare's Ovid
Author: OvidThe XV Bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis
Author: Ovidfifteen bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis
Author: Publius Ovidius NasoOvid in English, 1480-1625. Part One: Metamorphoses.
Author: Sarah Annes BrownPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 0947623922
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This volume brings together a range of celebrated and less familiar translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses produced in English between 1480 and 1625, beginning with the story of Narcissus from Caxton’s manuscript translation of the Metamorphoses and ending with George Sandys’s version of Callisto’s tale. The volume as a whole reflects the complex (and shifting) variety of Ovid’s early modern reception. These poems, some of them republished here for the first time, help extend and enrich our understanding of Ovid’s influence on early modern literature. All texts have been fully modernised and annotated, rendering them accessible to students and general readers as well as scholars of the period.
The XV. Bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis
Author: Publius Ovidius NasoPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Ovid's Changing Worlds
Author: Raphael LynePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198187042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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.
Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber, Esq.: Part the Fourt, Removed from His House at Pimlico. Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans, at His House, No° 93, Pall Mall. On Monday, ..., and Fourteen Following Days, Sundays Excepted. To be Viewed on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Previous to the Sale. [Each Day's Sale Will Commence at Half Past Twelve Precisely].
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Author: Bibliotheca Heberiana Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber, Esq
Author: Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell
Author: Diane Kelsey McColleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351910639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England. Its premise is that language and the perception of nature vitally affect each other and that seventeenth-century poets, primarily John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan, but also Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Traherne, Anne Finch, and others, responded to experimental proto-science and new technology in ways that we now call 'ecological' - concerned with watersheds and habitats and the lives of all creatures. It provides close readings of works by these poets in the contexts of natural history, philosophy, and theology as well as technology and land use, showing how they responded to what are currently considered ecological issues: deforestation, mining, air pollution, drainage of wetlands, destruction of habitats, the sentience and intelligence of animals, overbuilding, global commerce, the politics of land use, and relations between social justice and justice towards the other-than-human world. In this important book, Diane McColley demonstrates the language of poetry, the language of responsible science, and the language of moral and political philosophy all to be necessary parts of public discourse.
The Spirit of England
Author: Stephen MedcalfPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351540408
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Stephen Medcalf (1937-2006) was an essayist, in the best traditional sense of that calling: a writer not of books but of substantial and justly celebrated essays, widely read in the Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere. Medcalf's abiding question to the world was the Psalmist's: 'What is man that thou art mindful of him?' His was a Blakean sense of Englishness, far from the chocolate-box painting or the television adaptation, and for him the strongest writers were those keenly aware of their roots in the classical, Anglo-Saxon or Celtic past. By gathering together Medcalf's most important work, this volume shows the coherence of his thinking, and of the elusive, complicated literary heritage he celebrated, one which acknowledges the Greco-Roman strain, the Christian strain, the down-to-earth humour and the sly irony. Thirteen substantial essays cover Virgil, the Bible, the English translation of Alfred, Piers Plowman, the 'half-alien culture' of the high Middle Ages, Chaucer's contemporary Thomas Usk, Shakespeare's images of resurrection, Horace and Kipling juxtaposed, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot's use of Ovid, P. G. Wodehouse, William Golding, John Betjeman, Geoffrey Hill and other writers. The book concludes with perhaps Medcalf's most personal article of all: his account of finding a baby in a phone box on a cold winter's night, which first appeared in the Guardian Christmas Supplement in 2002.