Ovid's Poetry of Exile

By Ovid and Ovid Sidney George Owen

Book Overview

"Someone clever, passionate, and heartbroken comes very near us, and I think it is Ovid. I found it impossible to stop reading these poems. And poems they are."--Richard Wilbur.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801839157
• ISBN13: 9780801839153
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

For exiles everywhere in anytime

Of maximum comfort to anyone forced to live away from home; exquisite rendition of homesickness, will give solace to fellow exiles. Essential read for those who live with foreigners.