Metamorphoses: A New Translation
“This translation of theMetamorphosesis all that one could wish.” (Richard Wilbur)“Among the accomplished translations of Ovid in our day, this version ofMetamorphosesby Charles Martin—elegant, witty and exuberant by turns, and epic in its span from the creation of the world to the apotheosis of Julius Caesar—should now lay claim to its own distinguished ground.” (Robert Fagles)“Charles Martin's new translation of theMetamorphoses, the latest in a 500-year-old tradition, both gives us an Ovid for our times and reminds us that in our times Ovid is everywhere.” (The Hudson Review)“[Martin] has caught Ovid's sly ironies, his un-Virgilian briskness, and his own kind of tough-minded pathos, and has created a completely convincing poetic voice. The translation is a marvel.” (Rosanna Warren)“I read right through this translation and so exhilarated was the handling of movement and metaphor throughout that when I finished I wanted to start over.... Charles Martin is to be congratulated for a singular achievement.” (William Jay Smith)“Ever since Horace Gregory published his translation ofThe Metamorphosesin 1958, it hasn't been bettered—until now. Charles Martin's muscular version in blank verse is remarkably lively and modern, the Ovid for our time.” (Robert Phillips)