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"This book is about what four renaissance writers do to Ovid, and what he does to them. The four texts at the centre of this book – the Metamorphoses translations of Arthur Golding (1567) and George Sandys (1632), Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion – are all seen to work within the structural themes of Ovid's epic. All these authors imitate the classics but they serve their native culture while doing so, and in the study the moments of competition and crisis come to the fore. The emergence of the English literary language is shown to be a complex and troubled process. Ovid is no passive participant in this process, and the problematic implications of an eternal classic based on change impress themselves on all its imitators. This book uncovers the subtle energies of all four texts, dealing with one of the most important influences on the English Renaissance."
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Appreciation, English Epic poetry, English poetry, History, History and criticism, Imitation in literature, Influence, Roman influences, Translating and interpreting, Translations into English, Ovid, 43 b.c.-17 a.d. or 18 a.d.People
Arthur Golding (1536-1606), Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), George Sandys (1578-1644), Michael Drayton (1563-1631), Ovid (43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D)Places
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Ovid's changing worlds: English Metamorphoses, 1567-1632
2001, Oxford University Press
in English
0198187041 9780198187042
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-294) and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral) under the title: Studies in the English imitation of Ovid, 1567-1609.
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