The Love PoemsOxford University Press, 1998 - 265 من الصفحات Ovid's love-poetry was typically original and innovative. His witty analysis in the Amores (Loves) of the elegiac relationship develops with relentless irony its essential paradox - love as simultaneously fulfilling and destructive - to its logical conclusion: definitive disestablishment ofthe poet-lover's role as presented by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius. In its place he went on to offer in the Ars Amatoria (Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love) an equally brilliant presentation of an alternative and more realistic conception of love as a game at which both sexes canplay without getting hurt - providing they stick to Ovid's rules. Under the surface of Ovid's wit there runs an undercurrent of serious meaning: the theme of the poet's complete control of his medium and his art and a proud consciousness of his achievements. His claim to be 'the Virgil of elegy' isarrestingly justified in these extraordinarily accomplished poems. Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume he has included the brilliant version of the Art of Love by Moore, published more than fifty years ago and still unequalled; the smallrevisions he has made will enhance the reader's admiration for Moore's achievement. |
المحتوى
COSMETICS FOR LADIES | 83 |
BOOK II | 175 |
28 | 190 |
83 | 215 |
108 | 223 |
BOOK III | 235 |
THE CURES FOR LOVE | 246 |
256 | |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Agamemnon allusion Amores Apollo Apuleius Argonautica arms Atreus Augustus Bacchus beauty blush Book breast Briseis Callimachus Catullus chariot charm cheeks Corinna couplets Cupid Demophoon door dress elegiac elegy Ennius eyes face famous favour fear fierce fire flame genre Georgics girl girl's give goddess gods Greek hair hand hard hate heart heroic couplets Heroides Hesiod hexameter Homer Horace husband Iliad Introd Jove joys Juno keep kisses Latin literary locks look love's lover Lucretius maid Mars Medicamina Metamorphoses metre mistress mother Muses ne'er night o'er Odes once Ovid Ovid's Oxford Phoebus play poems poet poetic poetry Propertius Protesilaus readers Remedia Remedia Amoris Roman Rome Romulus shame slave sleep steeds story sweet tears tell Tereus theme There's Theseus Tibullus Tristia Trojan Troy Ulysses Venus verse Virgil what's wife wine woman women words