| Description |
xiv, 298 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Charles Martindale -- Daedalus and Icarus (i) from Rome to the end of the Middle Ages / Niall Rudd -- Daedalus and Icarus (ii) from the Renaissance to the present day / Niall Rudd -- Ovid the crusader / C.W. Grocock -- Chaucer and Ovid : a question of authority / Helen Cooper -- Lessons from the great clerk : Ovid and John Gower / Bruce Harbert -- Original fictions : metamorphoses in The faerie queene / Colin Burrow -- Ovid and the Elizabethans / Laurence Lerner -- Ovid's Narcissus and Shakespeare's Richard II : the reflected self / A.D. Nuttall -- Illustrating Ovid / Nigel Llewellyn -- Dryden and Ovid's "Wit out of season" / David Hopkins -- The Heroides and the English Augustans / Rachel Trickett |
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Some versions of Pygmalion / Jane M. Miller -- Ovid and the nineteenth century / Norman Vance -- T.S. Eliot's Metamorphoses : Ovid and The waste land / Stephen Medcalf |
| Analysis |
English literature, 1350-1925. Influence of Ovid |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 286-287 |
| Subject |
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Influence.
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Ovid
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English literature -- Roman influences.
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Metamorphosis in art.
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Metamorphosis in literature.
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Mythology, Classical, in art.
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Mythology, Classical, in literature.
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| Author |
Martindale, Charles.
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| LC no. |
87011703 |
| ISBN |
0521307716 |
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