![]() ![]() Metamorphosis, for Ovid, is a skeleton key to the workings of life itself and the workings of art as well. At its extremes, passion is represented by transformation, or metamorphisis, through love, death, or radical physical change. The stories Hughes has chosen for Tales from Ovid are stories of passion, and of the profound changes passion works on the figures of classical mythology: Hercules, Narcissus, Prosperpina, Pygmalion, Midas, Bacchus, Arachne, Venus and Adonis, Pyramus and Thisbe. The result, Tales from Ovid, is the most vigorous and supple twentieth-century version of this foundational work, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader. Ted Hughes, one of the most admired and widely read of living poets, has now translated twenty-four stories from the Metamorphoses. A powerful version of the Latin classic by England’s late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes’s oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the great works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry. ![]() Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes is a 257-page hardcover published in 1997 by Farrar Straus Giroux and is a stated first edition. ![]()
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