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Tales from Ovid
About this book
When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology
After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original, but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poetwere somehow the same person.
Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe. In them, Hughes's supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands, alongside his
Crow and
Gaudete, as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Creation; Four Ages; Flood; Lycaon
- Phaethon
- Callisto and Arcas
- The Rape of Proserpina
- Arethusa
- Tiresias
- Echo and Narcissus
- Erisychthon
- Semele
- Peleus and Thetis
- Actaeon
- Myrrha
- Venus and Adonis (and Atalanta)
- Pygmalion
- Hercules and Dejanira
- The Birth of Hercules
- The Death of Cygnus
- Arachne
- Bacchus and Pentheus
- Midas
- Niobe
- Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
- Tereus
- Pyramus and Thisbe
- Glossary of Names and Places
- Praise
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
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