Tales from Ovid N.H. Pritchard

Tales from Ovid N.H. PritchardTed Hughes When it was first published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty four of its stories with great power and directness. The result is the liveliest twentieth century

Value here is chosen conviviality

radical thought

like the world of dreams or an ongoing TV show

fleeting consciousness of the present moment from which memory is—as she says—“always there

to be entered

the book charts the imaginary progress of the nineteenth-century statesman and tyrant

De kracht ligt erin dat ze in een onderkoelde stijl het dwingende beeld weet op te roepen van een hallucinaire fabriekskosmos zonder plaats of geschiedenis

Widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of ecopoetry of our time

and the wasted

Anaïs Duplan

but will add a new layer as a far more personal and lyrical book than anything she has yet published

placing already celebrated authors and translators alongside less established voices