Ovid's Changing Worlds: English Metamorphoses 1567-1632

by Raphael Lyne

Overview

Ovid's Changing Worlds looks at the four most important English imitations of the Metamorphoses in the English Renaissance: the translations of Arthur Golding and George Sandys, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. It sheds new light on dealings with the classics in the period and shows that the emergence of English literature was a complex and fascinating process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198187042
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/13/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

New Hall, Cambridge

Editorial Reviews

"Lyne's erudite work about four Renaissance English engagements with the Metamorphoses has much to recommend it...There is much of use in this excellent book, for Renaissance scholars and Ovidians; especially noteworthy is the sustained discussion of Pythagoras in Spenser, Drayton, and Sandys as a figure for the translator/author." —Religious Studies Review

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