Full name: After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

Author: Michael Hofmann Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780374101978 0374101973

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 of some of the most famous and notorious myths from the Metamorphoses.Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Proserpina, Marsyas, Medea, Baucis and Philemon, Orpheus and Eurydice--these and many other immortal tales are given fresh and startling life in exciting new versions. The contributors--among them Fleur Adcock, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Lawrence Joseph, Kenneth Koch, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Robert Pinsky, Frederick Seidel, Charles Simic, and C. K. Williams--constitute an impressive roster of today's major poets. After Ovid is a powerful re-envisioning of a fundamental work of literature as well as a remarkable affirmation of the current state of poetry in English. Similar books: Selected Poems by Michael Hofmann Twentieth-Century German Poetry by Michael Hofmann Approximately Nowhere by Michael Hofmann A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz Poetry 180 by Billy Collins Till I End My Song by Harold Bloom 180 More by Billy Collins Good Poems by Garrison Keillor Good Poems for Hard Times by Garrison Keillor An Introduction to Poetry by X. J. Kennedy Great American Prose Poems by David Lehman Legitimate Dangers by Michael Dumanis Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes Palgrave's Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets by Hugh Maclean The Black Poets by Dudley Randall The Metaphysical Poets by Helen Louise Gardner The Terrible Rain by Brian Gardner The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost