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After Ovid: New Metamorphoses Paperback - 1996

by Michael Hofmann; James Lasdun (Editor); Michael Hofmann (Editor)


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Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the relentless theme of transformation stands as a primary metaphor for the often cataclysmic dynamics of life itself. For this book, British poets Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun have invited more than forty leading English-language poets to create their own idiomatic contemporary versions of some of the most famous and notorious myths from the Metamorphoses. Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Proserpina, Marsyas, Medea, Baucis and Philemon, Orpheus and Eurydice--these and many other immortal tales are given fresh and startling life in exciting new versions. The contributors--among them Fleur Adcock, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Lawrence Joseph, Kenneth Koch, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Robert Pinsky, Frederick Seidel, Charles Simic, and C. K. Williams--constitute an impressive roster of today's major poets. After Ovid is a powerful re-envisioning of a fundamental work of literature as well as a remarkable affirmation of the current state of poetry in English.

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  • Title After Ovid: New Metamorphoses
  • Author Michael Hofmann; James Lasdun (Editor); Michael Hofmann (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 298
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, NY
  • Date 1996-04-30
  • ISBN 9780374524784 / 0374524785
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.2 x 0.73 in (23.42 x 15.75 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.914

About the author

Michael Hofmann is a poet and frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost translators of works from German to English. He lives in London.
James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published two novels as well as several collections of short stories and poetry. He has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the Los Angeles Times, T. S. Eliot, and Forward prizes in poetry; and he was the winner of the inaugural U.K./BBC Short Story Prize. His nonfiction has been published in Harper's Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books.

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