After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

by Michael Hofmann

Book Overview

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the relentless theme of transformation stands as a primary metaphor for the often cataclysmic dynamics of life itself. For this book, British poets Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun have invited more than forty leading English-language poets to create their own idiomatic contemporary versions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374524785
• ISBN13: 9780374524784
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

These stories never age. They metamorphosize.

A collection of stories that we grew up hearing, but with all new skin. These re-tellings give new blood to Ovid and infuse his timeless book with modern spirit. Give: Apollo and Daphne packs a punch with its Elivs-like god and neo-feminist victim. A bevy of talented writers prove that familiar plots do not have to retain their old luster but can be polished anew. After Ovid is a wonderful way to loose yourself in imagination as you see the familiar become at once perverse and natal and finally familiar again.