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The Love Poems

The Love Poems

A.D. Melville
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Ovid's love-poetry was typically original and innovative. His witty analysis in the Amores of the elegiac relationship develops with relentless irony its essential paradox - love as simultaneously fulfilling and destructive - to its logical conclusion: definitive disestablishment of the poet-lover's role as presented by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius. In its place he went on to offer in the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris an equally brilliant presentation of an alternative and more realistic conception of love as a game at which both sexes can play without getting hurt - providing they stick to Ovid's rules. Under the surface of Ovid's wit there runs an undercurrent of serious meaning: the theme of the poet's complete control of his medium and his art and a proud consciousness of his achievements.
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Release
January 28, 1999
ISBN
0192836331
ISBN 13
9780192836335

The Love Poems

A.D. Melville
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Ovid's love-poetry was typically original and innovative. His witty analysis in the Amores of the elegiac relationship develops with relentless irony its essential paradox - love as simultaneously fulfilling and destructive - to its logical conclusion: definitive disestablishment of the poet-lover's role as presented by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius. In its place he went on to offer in the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris an equally brilliant presentation of an alternative and more realistic conception of love as a game at which both sexes can play without getting hurt - providing they stick to Ovid's rules. Under the surface of Ovid's wit there runs an undercurrent of serious meaning: the theme of the poet's complete control of his medium and his art and a proud consciousness of his achievements.
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Release
January 28, 1999
ISBN
0192836331
ISBN 13
9780192836335

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