Ovid

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

These two poems celebrate passionate love and loss experienced by fictional women, victimised by an unfeeling world; the first is a tour de force of ventriloquism, as Pope persuasively adopts a female voice. Pope's Eloisa...

Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other...

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...

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...

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...

At her husband's prompting, MS composed in 1818, the year of Frankenstein, a translation of Mirra, a drama by the Italian Romantic playwright Vittorio Alfieri , whose subject-matter (from Ovid 's Metamorphoses) is father-daughter incest.

Without an academic position, AEH made himself in his spare time the leading classical textual editor of his generation. The edition of Propertius which he worked at from his student days onwards was never published...

LH 's Commonplace Book includes prose notes on religious topics, and long passages of poetry, most of it by other people, and much of it translated. She translated some of Ovid 's amorous Heroides herself...

ASB continued her interest in Ovid with Arachne, a literary essay, in Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry in early 2000. In 2001 she edited On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays...

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.

His early translation Sapho to Phaon—which, like Ovid 's original, represents the woman poet as despairingly in love with a man who has rejected her—appeared in print in 1712 in the eighth edition of...

No copy of the first edition is known to be extant. The extremely long title continues An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor: containing a much larger collection of words than any book...

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...