The love poems
Alan Melville's translations match the elegance of Ovid's Latin. In this volume he has included the version of the Art of Love by Moore, published more than 50 years ago.
xxxvi, 265 pages.
9780192836335, 0192836331
1057670843
Historical sketch; Introduction; Translator's note; elect bibliography; Amores (Books I-III); Cosmetics for ladies; The art of love (Books I-III); The cures for love; Explanatory notes; Glossary and index of names
Transl. by A.D. Melville, with an introd. and notes by E.J. Kenney
Originally published in 1990 by Oxford U.P., as a World's Classics paperback. Reissued as an Oxford World's Classic paperback 1998