Ovid's changing worlds : English Metamorphoses, 1567-1632
Lyne, RaphaelAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2001.
This text looks at the four most important English imitations of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the English Renaissance. It sheds new light on dealings with the classics in the period and shows that the emergence of English literature was a complex process.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text looks at the four most important English imitations of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the English Renaissance. It sheds new light on dealings with the classics in the period and shows that the emergence of English literature was a complex process.
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Machine generated contents note: I. GOLDING'S ENGLISHED METAMORPHOSES -- Ovid Moralized and Unmoralized -- The Englishness of Golding's Ovid -- Ruddy Country Genteman -- 2. OVIDIAN SUBTEXTS IN THE FAERIE QUEENE -- Roman Ruins -- Mutability -- Pythagorean Contexts -- Intertextual Clusters -- Non-metamorphosis -- Endings -- 3. DRAYTON'S CHOROGRAPHICAL -- METAMORPHOSES -- Resisting Ovid -- A Map of Metamorphoses -- Pythagorean Bards -- Reading Ovid Chorographically -- 4. SANDYS'S VIRGINIAN OVID -- Obvious Vocabulary -- A Double Stranger -- New Worlds, Ancient Texts, New Commentaries -- CONCLUSION -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
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