Ovid Surveyed
An Abridgement for the General Reader of 'Ovid Recalled'

In this 1962 volume, Mr Wilkinson writes to communicate his own evident enjoyment and understanding of Ovid's fortunes.

L. P. Wilkinson (Author)

9780521091763, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 January 1962

250 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm, 0.32 kg

Ovid was, despite his faults, what Macaulay called him, 'a good fellow'. But he was also a wit, the product of an age of refinement. More important, he was an artist with conscious mastery of a great range of literary artifice; his poetry has a studied movement, a grace, a rich and patterned surface, a music, that have appealed to readers and writers with an ear for ' technique' ever since. In this 1962 volume, Mr Wilkinson writes to communicate his own evident enjoyment and understanding of Ovid's fortunes. A life tells what is known of the poet, and serves as a framework to the account of the poetry. This book, an abridgement of Ovid Recalled, is designed particularly for those who have no Latin: no special knowledge is assumed, and the ample quotation is translated into heroic couplets. The result is a delightful and serviceable introduction to Ovid.

Introduction
Part I. Early Years
Part II. Latin Erotic Elegy
Part III. The Elegaic Couplet
Part IV. The Amores
Part V. The Heroides
Part VI. The Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris
Part VII. The Metamorphoses: 1. Spirit and treatment
2. Grotesqueness, humour, wit
3. Narrative and description
4. The gods
5. Mortals
6. Philosophy
7. Italy and Rome
8. Drama, rhetoric, words
9. Conclusion
Part VIII. The Fasti
Part IX. Banishment: Tristia I and II
Part X. Tristia III-V, Ibis, Epistulae ex Ponto
Part XI. The Middle Ages
Part XII. The Renaissance
Epilogue
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]