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Informationen zum Autor David R. Slavitt is a poet and the translator of more than ninety works of fiction, poetry, and drama. Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize–winning literary journalist and the author of the memoir An Open Book and of four collections of essays: Readings , Bound to Please , Book by Book , and Classics for Pleasure . Klappentext Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished, ruinous kind, like a sickness, and Ovid prescribes cures. Zusammenfassung Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto! esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid! once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited! idiomatic! audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished! ruinous kind! like a sickness! and Ovid prescribes cures.
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Contents Translator's Preface Introduction - Michael Dirda Love Poems (Amores) Book I Book II Book III Letters (Heroides) I. Penelope to Ulysses II. Phyllis to Demophoön III. Briseis to Achilles IV. Phaedra to Hyppolytus V. Oenone to Paris VI. Hipsipyle to Jason VII. Dido to Aeneas VIII. Hermione to Orestes IX. Deianira to Hercules X. Ariadne to Theseus XI. Canace to Macareus XII. Medea to Jason XIII. Laodamia to Protesilaus XIV. Hypermestra to Lynceus XV. Sappho to Phaon XVI. Paris to Helen XVII. Helen to Paris XVIII. Leander to Hero XIX. Hero to Leander XX. Acontius to Cydippe XXI. Cydippe to Acontius Remedies (Remedia Amoris)
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David Slavitt remains at the top of his form, and here adds splendid work to his earlier fine renditions of Ovid.
-- Henry Taylor
A translation for our times.
-- Gail Holst-Warhaft
Slavitt's rendering of Ovid is never stuffy or bookish, as translations of classics can be; rather, it is always modern, idiomatic, fast paced, and enjoyable.
-- B. E. Brandt Choice
