The English Enlightenment reads Ovid : Dryden and Jacob Tonson's 1717 Metamorphoses / by Richard Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Richard Everett, 1930-

Contributor:

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 62.

AMS studies in the eighteenth-century ; no. 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ovid.

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

Dryden, John, 1631-1700--Appreciation--England.

Dryden, John.

Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736.

Tonson, Jacob.

Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

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

Authors and publishers--England--London--History--18th century.

Authors and publishers.

History.

England--Intellectual life--18th century.

England.

Intellectual life.

England--London.

Physical Description:

xxix, 166 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : AMS Press, Inc., [2013]

Contents:

Early modern Ovid Moralis'

Golding, Renoüard, and Sandys

"To restore Ovid to his native sweetness, easiness, and smoothness": Dryden and the 1717 Tonson edition

"Pretty applications of poetical stories": Addison, Gay, Pope, Tate, and Rowe at work

"Many noble and beautiful strokes of poetry": Sir Samuel Garth and his other collaborators.

Notes:

Includes index and bibliographical references (pages 157-162) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9780404648626

0404648622

OCLC:

847842666

Publisher Number:

99954835470