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| Tales from Ovid: Twenty-four Passages from the "Metamorphoses" | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ted Hughes, Ovid
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 48136
Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0571191037
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780571191031
ASIN: 0571191037
Publication Date: May 5, 1997
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 Great poetry - but it's not Ovid October 22, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm not knocking this text as like the other reviewers here I think it's gritty, raw and imaginative - but I do dispute the idea of it being a 'translation' of Ovid, because it isn't: it's Hughes own take on the mythology of the world. Nothing wrong with that, but just be aware that this is a work to be read on its own merits, and if you want to read Ovid then try the David Raeburn translation published by Penguin.
Exhilerating January 12, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've never been a particular fan of Ted Hughes, but this volume of translation of Ovid's wonderful stories is nothing short of astonishing. Rarely has such meaty, bold, exciting poetry been written. The phrasing is exquisite, with raw, graphic imagery, and moments of emotional purity which can be deeply moving. Taking the original Latin to soaring new heights, this is a masterpiece.
a great and important book January 3, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Read this majestic, exciting volume of poems as soon as you can.It's a truly wonderful and brilliant work. The best book by a British writer during the 1990s. Hughes's Ovid is better than the old Ovid! The original Press reviews said it was a very fine book - even Steiner in The Observer! - and they were right. A classic.
The Engine of the Imagination June 30, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ted Hughes's translation of Ovid's epic is nothing short of sublime. He manages to capture the two abiding qualities of the original: its sinuousness and its crystalline precision. The magic of The Metamorphosis lies in it's calculated effect on the imagination; it is only in the mind's inward eye that the wondrous transformations can take place. Hughes has managed to tap into the magic and power of the tales for a modern ear. The language used in 'Phoeaton' and 'The Rape of Prosipina' is unforgettable.
Tense myth telling of the highest order. June 13, 2000
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For once, hughes' voice actually adds to his poetry. A roller-coaster ride from start to finish.
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