The English Enlightenment reads Ovid
Subtitle: Dryden and Jacob Tonson's 1717 Metamorphoses
By: by Richard Morton
Series: AMS studies in the eighteenth-century -- no. 62
Publisher: AMS Press, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780404648626
Subjects: Translations into English; History and criticism; Appreciation; Authors and publishers; History; Intellectual life
Notes: Includes index and bibliographic references (pages 157-162) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early modern Ovid Moralis' - Golding, Renoüard, and Sandys; title: "To restore Ovid to his native sweetness, easiness, and smoothness": Dryden and the 1717 Tonson edition; title: "Pretty applications of poetical stories": Addison, Gay, Pope, Tate, and Rowe at work; title: "Many noble and beautiful strokes of poetry": Sir Samuel Garth and his other collaborators.