Ovid's Metamorphoses in English poetry / edited by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Wolfgang Görtschacher ; assistent editors: Andrea Oberndorfer and Elisabeth Skokan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine.

Görtschacher, Wolfgang.

Series:

Wissenschaft und Kunst ; Bd. 10.

Wissenschaft und Kunst ; Bd. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Classical influences.

English poetry.

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

Ovid.

Physical Description:

xxi, 303 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Winter, 2009.

Contents:

Metamorphoses of Ovid's Metamorphoses in English poetry / Sabine Coelsch-Foisner

Against mighty nature's laws-

the reception of Myrrha's tale in Metamorphoses / Nora Liassis

Receptions of Ovid's Salmacis-and-Hermaphroditus metamorphosis from Arthur Golding to Ted Hughes / Per Serritslev Petersen

Love in the Middle English Sir Orfeo : Ovid's Orpheus transformed / Ann Higgins

The absent birds and the squawking rabble : Chaucer's rhetoric of omission and consolation in the Book of the Duchess / Michael Foster

I know where is an hynde : Sir Thomas Wyatt and the transformation of Actaeon / William Rossiter

Ovid's Pygmalion and the English Renaissance poets / Armelle Sabatier

As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you : an Ovidian married couple amongst the Elizabethan and Victorian poets / Glyn Pursglove

Voice, writing, and the Ovidian play of signs in Titus Andronicus / Andrew Hui

George Sandys's 1632 Ovid translation and the Renaissance reader / Laura Boercker

A double stranger : Sandys, Ovid, and the New World / Gary A. Schmidt

"Rediscovering" Ovid in the eighteenth century : James Thomson's The seasons / Sonja Fielitz

Iphis her wish (however wild) obtain'd : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and sexual metamorphoses / Alison Winch

-Labour of love : transformation of the Ovidian flower-figures in William Blakes Songs / Éva Antal

Philomela in American Modernist poetry (T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and John Crowe Ransom) / Anne Tomiche

Mahon and Ovid : subtext and hidden agenda / Maryvonne Boisseau

Ovid and Derek Mahon : poets in exile / Christopher Moylan

Was Niobe black : Ovid's Metamorphoses and the sister trope

Translations. From Metamorphoses Book XI (lines 592-676) / John Kinsella ; Pentheus and the Bacchae (Book III, lines 513-733) : a tale after Ovid ; Afterword to a version from Ovid / Fred Blake.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783825355203

3825355209

OCLC:

492093026