Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses

✍ Scribed by Ovid (Trans. Arthur Golding)

Publisher: W . W. Norton & Company
Year: 1966
Tongue: English
Leaves: 340
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This famous translation of "The Metamorphoses" is the one that was read by William Shakespeare. Arthur Golding was the uncle of Edward DeVere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford, which many believe was the true identity of Shakespeare, and many of Shakespeare's stories and plots are taken from this book. The poet Ezra Pound called Golding's translation of Ovid "the most beautiful book in the English language." Certainly the poetry of it is lush, lively, ornate, and far more Elizabethan than Roman. If you love vivid imagery and melodious poetry you will love this book.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction by W. H. D. Rouse
The Epistle 1
The Preface (too the Reader) 15
The First Booke of Ovids Metamorphosis 21
The Seconde Booke 41
The Third Booke 63
The Fourth Booke 82
The Fyft Booke 102
The Sixt Booke 119
The Seventh Booke 137
The Eight Booke 160
The Ninth Booke 182
The Tenth Booke 201
The Eleventh Booke 219
The Twelfth Booke 238
The Thirteenth Booke 252
The Fourteenth Booke 275
The Fifteenth Booke 295
Textual Notes by W. H. D. Rouse 315

✦ Subjects

Elizabethan Poetry and Translation

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