Ovid,. The Fable of Phaeton. Translator Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe, Nichol.
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Textual Production | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Whitney | IW
's verse has dash and pace; her stanzas are jaunty despite the ungainly poulter's measure. In the persona of jilted woman she eschews either pathos or revenge; her tirades are not without humour. She... |
Textual Features | Isabella Whitney | Men, she says, should never be trusted without testing first; they have learned deception from Ovid
. She likens them, with telling gender-reversal, to mermaids luring sailors to their doom, and again she provides a... |
Textual Production | Isabella Whitney | Critic Raphael Lyne argues that IW
may have written two more poems in poulter's measure: Dido to Aeneas (a translation from Ovid
) and Aeneas to Dido (original), which appeared together in F. L.'s... |
Education | Isabella Whitney | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phillis Wheatley | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Wharton | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marina Warner | 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
. Lasdun, James. “Hatching, Splitting, Doubling”. London Review of Books, pp. 24-5. 24 Jays, David. “Forever changes”. The Observer. |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | 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. Marina Warner: Novelist and Mythographer. http://www.marinawarner.com. |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | 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. Marina Warner: Novelist and Mythographer. http://www.marinawarner.com. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marina Warner | 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... |
Publishing | Marina Warner | 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. Warner, Marina. “Leto’s Flight”. Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry, Chatto and Windus, pp. 160-82. 160-82 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marina Warner | 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... |
Textual Features | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu |