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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. His claim to be `the Virgil of elegy' is arrestingly justified in these extraordinarily accomplished poems. Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin, with their witty modern idiom being highly entertaining. In this volume he has included the brilliant version of the Art of Love by Moore, published more than fifty years ago and still unequalled; the small revisions he has made will enhance the reader's admiration for Moore's achievement.
Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Release
July 01, 2008
ISBN
0199540330
ISBN 13
9780199540334

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. His claim to be `the Virgil of elegy' is arrestingly justified in these extraordinarily accomplished poems. Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin, with their witty modern idiom being highly entertaining. In this volume he has included the brilliant version of the Art of Love by Moore, published more than fifty years ago and still unequalled; the small revisions he has made will enhance the reader's admiration for Moore's achievement.
Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Release
July 01, 2008
ISBN
0199540330
ISBN 13
9780199540334

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