The Love Poems [Audiobook] download free by Ovid
- Listen audiobook: The Love Poems
- Author: Ovid
- Release date: 2008/11/23
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780199540334
- Rating: 8.36 of 10
- Votes: 878
- Review by: Alexa Fields
- Review rating: 7.42 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/14
- Duration: 3H46M47S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-04
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA Lossless, AC3, WMA, FLAC, MP3, WAV, MPEG4, TTA (compression LZMA, ZIP, RAR, CBZ, EML, CHM)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M29S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Ovid's love-poetry was typically original and innovative. His witty analysis in the Amores (Loves) 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 (Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love) anequally 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 completecontrol 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. Their witty modern idiom is 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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Poetry By Individual Poets, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.85 USD
- Dimensions: 127x195x19mm
- Weight: 233g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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