Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics)
"A rich and stimulating exploration of the implications of Milton's study of the Ovidian tradition for the substance and ambitions of his verse as a whole ... a suggestive general model of some of the ways in which poetry of the past is constantly given new life in the present."--Notes andQueries"An intricate, thought-provoking study, rich with detail and numerous flashes of brilliant insight. ... [The author's] lively and engaging manner ensures that both students and scholars alike will find her book a pleasure to read. This fine study is a major achievement and a significant contribution both to Milton criticism and to the history of the reception of Ovid, one that opens up many promising avenues for further exploration."--The Classical Review"Every chapter in Kilgour's book offers something valuable, and the whole is richly informative and thought-provoking."--Milton Quarterly"A fine study of Milton and Ovid ... a skilfully woven work of criticism without a thread awry in its scholarly fabric."--Erick Ramalho,Bryn Mawr Classical Review"A major achievement ... as timely as other creative reinterpretations of Ovid today, and, though a scholarly work, belongs to the same rich field of our own transformations and interpretations of Ovid."--Goran Stanivukovic,Review of English Studies"Many will welcome [the author's] occasional interjections of dry humor. Scholars of both classical and early modern literature and advanced graduate students should find this book essential to study of Milton's relationship to Ovid and other writers of antiquity."--Renaissance Quarterly--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.