Ovid

AS contributed a modern reworking of the Iphis and Ianthe myth from Ovid 's Metamorphoses to the Canongate Myth Series; her short novel Girl Meets Boy resituates Ovid's classic tale of lesbian romance and gender...

Smith's take on Iphis and Ianthe begins with sisters Anthea and Imogen listening to their grandfather's stories from when I was a girl in the women's suffrage movement: a sure induction into matters of gender...

ET , aged thirty, apparently arranged the anonymous printing of her first collection, Poems on Several Occasions, through John Clarke , with a quotation from Ovid on the title-page.

ET 's poems were circulating at least by 1714, in manuscript, or in the opportunistic publications of others, or both. After her death William Duncombe printed one of her imitations of odes by Horace which...

After the deaths of her parents Melesina Chenevix was committed to the care of a governess who had a determination to rule by rigour. . . . The fear and distaste I had for her...

The heroes of these tales include military and political characters but also such literary exiles as Ovid , Virgil , and Horace .

MW published a study entitled Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds, a work which, like her preceding novel and short-story collection, reflects her interest in the Metamorphoses of Ovid .

MW published The Leto Bundle, a transhistorical novel in which she uses the Ovid ian concept of metamorphosis to examine the realities of twentieth-century diaspora.

The basis of the book is Ovid 's story of Leto and the birth of her twins, an event which Warner had retold in a short story published the previous year.

Here MW enlarges on Ovid 's tale through her heroine Leto, a woman who travels through time, metamorphosing from a pre-Christian-era mother to a present-day refugee. Thus, Warner brings the Ovidian notion of metamorphosis to...

The book, edited by Philip Terry and published in London by Chatto and Windus , brought together nineteen distinguished contributors from around the world, whose approaches to Ovid vary considerably.

The editor notes that Warner's contribution follows a stratedy also used by Ovid himself in deliberately confusing the story of Leto and her babies with other stories. Through the metamorphic nature of the narrative, she...

The first number, dated 1 December 1824, opens with The Editors to the Reader, in which Watts's three personae introduce themselves as sisters. They are very literary personifications, who possess, respectively, the actual spear...

Love's Martyr deals with the supposed unhappy love-affair between the Roman poet Ovid and Julia , the daughter of Augustus Caesar , who of course plans to marry her to someone more patrician and military...

PW 's poetry is technically adept; collected, it adapts the standard language of sentimentality and protest into a dignified and individual voice. She celebrates liberty of various kinds, praises the work of a black artist...