Ovid Surveyed
Ovid Surveyed
Ovid was, despite his faults, what Macaulay called him, 'a good fellow'. But he was also a wit, the product of an age of refinement. More important, he was an artist with conscious mastery of a great range of literary artifice; his poetry has a studied movement, a grace, a rich and patterned surface, a music, that have appealed to readers and writers with an ear for ' technique' ever since. In this 1962 volume, Mr Wilkinson writes to communicate his own evident enjoyment and understanding of Ovid's fortunes. A life tells what is known of the poet, and serves as a framework to the account of the poetry. This book, an abridgement of Ovid Recalled, is designed particularly for those who have no Latin: no special knowledge is assumed, and the ample quotation is translated into heroic couplets. The result is a delightful and serviceable introduction to Ovid.
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250 pages
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Early Years
- Part II. Latin Erotic Elegy
- Part III. The Elegaic Couplet
- Part IV. The Amores
- Part V. The Heroides
- Part VI. The Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris
- Part VII. The Metamorphoses:
- 1. Spirit and treatment
- 2. Grotesqueness, humour, wit
- 3. Narrative and description
- 4. The gods
- 5. Mortals
- 6. Philosophy
- 7. Italy and Rome
- 8. Drama, rhetoric, words
- 9. Conclusion
- Part VIII. The Fasti
- Part IX. Banishment: Tristia I and II
- Part X. Tristia III-V, Ibis, Epistulae ex Ponto
- Part XI. The Middle Ages
- Part XII. The Renaissance
- Epilogue
- Indexes.
