The Metamorphosis of Ovid : From Chaucer to Ted Hughes
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Sarah Annes.
The Metamorphosis of Ovid : From Chaucer to Ted Hughes
- Published
- New York :
- London : St. Martin's Press ;
- Duckworth, 1999.
- Physical Description
- viii, 246 pp.
- Description
- Twelve chapters assess why so many poets have been drawn to Ovid's Metamorphoses as a source of inspiration. Although its intrinsic richness and complexity provided the original impetus for its popularity, its permeation of so much English literature has shaped each generation's response to Ovid and lent still more resonance to his voice. Authors discussed include Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell, Milton, Samuel Garth, Keats, Beddoes, Browning, Eliot, Joyce, H.D., and Virginia Woolf.
- Chapter 2 (pp. 23-37) discusses the influence of Ovid on Chaucer's HF, describing Chaucer's appropriations and adjustments to the Ovidian notion of Fama in Metamorphoses 12, especially its concerns with literary production and dissemination.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.