The Love Poems: (pdf) (Oxford World's Classics Ser.)
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- Synopsis
- 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) 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.
- Copyright:
- 2008
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 265 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780199540334
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/04/24
- Copyrighted By:
- OUP
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Rochelle Pretsell
- Proofread By:
- Rochelle Pretsell
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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