Ovid's changing worlds : English Metamorphoses, 1567-1632 / Raphael Lyne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyne, Raphael.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Translations into English--History and criticism.

Ovid.

Translating and interpreting--England--History--16th century.

Translating and interpreting.

England.

History.

Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.

Golding, Arthur.

Sandys, George, 1578-1644.

Sandys, George.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Appreciation--England.

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.

Spenser, Edmund.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.

Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631. Poly-Olbion.

Drayton, Michael.

Epic poetry, English--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, English.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Influence.

English poetry--Roman influences.

Imitation in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 303 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral) under the title: Studies in the English imitation of Ovid, 1567-1609.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-294) and index.

ISBN:

0198187041

OCLC:

47356384