Ovid

Standard Name: Ovid

Connections

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Textual Production Fleur Adcock
She appeared with six other poets in Portfolio no. 3 from London's Steam Press in 1979 (an actual portfolio of separate leaves, published in fifty signed and numbered copies, in a black cover with illustrations...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Barker
JB writes to one male friend (my Adopted Brother) on his approaching marriage, not to congratulate but to dissuade.
Barker, Jane. Poetical Recreations. Benjamin Crayle.
11
She reflects her intimate knowledge of the work of Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley
Intertextuality and Influence Natalie Clifford Barney
Rewriting Ovid , NCB attributes Sappho 's death to her love for Timas, a young female disciple, instead of Phaon.
Causse, Michèle. Berthe ou un demi-siècle auprès de l’Amazone. Tierce.
249
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press.
2: 226
The text incorporates quotations from Sappho , together with footnotes in Greek and critical commentary.
Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press.
291
Textual Production Aphra Behn
AB wrote a verse epistle, Ovid to Julia, designed to defend or excuse the Earl of Mulgrave (later Duke of Buckingham) for aspiring to the hand of the young Princess Anne .
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press.
289-90
Intertextuality and Influence Aphra Behn
This hilarious comedy is set in Rome, with a conspicuously stupid, lustful, and venial puritan clergyman guyed as Tickletext, in transparent allusion to Titus Oates and the Popish Plot. The three heroines all...
Textual Production Aphra Behn
AB 's well-known The Disappointment, about a pastoral episode of male impotence, is freely translated from a French original which is itself adapted from a passage in Ovid 's Art of Love. It...
Anthologization Aphra Behn
Apart from many more or less creatively distant imitations, AB produced several actual translations.
Scholars sometimes differ about what to class as largely original and what not.
She was invited by Dryden to contribute to...
Friends, Associates Mary Matilda Betham
As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby (who later talked with high praise of her),
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons.
69, 70
MMB acquired a wide acquaintance in London. She became a close friend...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Matilda Betham
Catharine Macaulay , she insists, was pleasing and delicate in her person, and a woman of great feeling and indisputable abilities, though the democratic spirit of her writings has made them fall into disrepute.
Feminist Companion Archive.
She...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Boyd
EB shares the Scriblerian enthusiasm for mixing genres. She presents To Proteus, The Indisputable God of Change as A Dedication of the foregoing Poem, as a revolutionary Epistle, that shall still more accomplish'dly beautify never-indolent...
Textual Production A. S. Byatt
ASB continued her interest in Ovid with Arachne, a literary essay, in Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry in early 2000.
Byatt, A. S. “Arachne”. Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry, Chatto and Windus, pp. 131-57.
131
In 2001 she edited On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays...
Intertextuality and Influence A. S. Byatt
One reviewer noted ASB 's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content.
Rankin, Bill. “Byatt’s Stories Live Up to her High Standards”. Edmonton Journal, p. F7.
F7
In Crocodile Tears a woman walks away...
Occupation Lady Anne Clifford
During her first marriage LAC was often alone. She had books read aloud to her while she sewed: history, theology, Montaigne 's Essays, Spenser 's Faerie Queene, Chaucer 's works, Sidney 's Arcadia...
Intertextuality and Influence Maureen Duffy
She also says that it can be read as the mirror-image of her earliest novelistic theme: the child's relation to the mother.
Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Virago.
xi
Duffy dedicates the book to St Venus (a saint whose festival is...
Intertextuality and Influence Ephelia
Not all the poems in the volume are written in Ephelia's voice (which adds an extra dimension to argument over the ascription of those written in other voices). It seems that Ephelia enjoyed ventriloquizing the...

Timeline

1495: In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence,...

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1495

In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence, Italy, Girolamo Savonarola destroyed texts by Ovid , Dante , Boccaccio and others.

1555: French poet Louise Labé (c. 1520-1566), a...

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1555

French poetLouise Labé (c. 1520-1566), a salonnière in the city of Lyons, daughter and wife of rope-makers, published her Oeuvres at Lyons.

1567: George Turbervile published Heroycall Epistles...

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1567

George Turbervile published Heroycall Epistles (London: Henry Denham), a translation of Ovid 's Heroides.

12 October 1597: Michael Drayton's England's Heroicall Epistles...

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12 October 1597

Michael Drayton 's England's Heroicall Epistles was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared the same year.

1680: John Dryden, with others, published a collaborative...

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1680

John Dryden , with others, published a collaborative versetranslation of Ovid 's Epistles (or Heroides).

Texts

Ovid,. The Fable of Phaeton. Translator Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe, Nichol, 1828.