Ovid's Poetry of Exile
"Someone clever, passionate, and heartbroken comes very near us, and I think it is Ovid. I found it impossible to stop reading these poems. And poems they are." — Richard Wilbur.
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"Someone clever, passionate, and heartbroken comes very near us, and I think it is Ovid. I found it impossible to stop reading these poems. And poems they are." — Richard Wilbur.Library JournalSlavitt's latest literary renderings of Latin verse include three of Ovid's more obscure poems. Written during his exile from Rome, Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto , and Ibis are packed full of literary allusions demonstrating that, even without a library to consult, Ovid remained an erudite master of his craft. Claiming fidelity to Ovid's meaning while taking license with his words, Slavitt has a gift for verse that lifts the reader out of the realm of often-mechanistic translations. Unfortunately, these poems lack footnotes, desperately needed if readers are to understand the historical and mythological references that Ovid makes. For large collections.-- Marjorie F. MacKenzie, GSLIS, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
\ NewsweekSlavitt is an American poet and a slyly sophisticated novelist. In his free renderings, Ovid leaps to live: a very modern, urbane, plaintive man protesting his exile from Rome... This is grand stuff.\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalSlavitt's latest literary renderings of Latin verse include three of Ovid's more obscure poems. Written during his exile from Rome, Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto , and Ibis are packed full of literary allusions demonstrating that, even without a library to consult, Ovid remained an erudite master of his craft. Claiming fidelity to Ovid's meaning while taking license with his words, Slavitt has a gift for verse that lifts the reader out of the realm of often-mechanistic translations. Unfortunately, these poems lack footnotes, desperately needed if readers are to understand the historical and mythological references that Ovid makes. For large collections.-- Marjorie F. MacKenzie, GSLIS, Univ. of Washington, Seattle\ \
