Free Downloads The Love Poems (Oxford World's Classics)
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 broadest spectrum 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, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (July 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199540330
ISBN-13: 978-0199540334
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 0.7 x 5 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #438,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #191 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Genres & Styles > Gothic & Romance #226 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Love Poems #300 in Books > Literature & Fiction > British & Irish > Shakespeare > Literary Criticism
Melville's translation fails for one specific reason: the Latin text is not translated faithfully, and he sacrifices an accurate representation for producing rhyming English verse. I should remind potential readers that Latin poets did not produce rhyming poetry, and the tendency for English-speaking scholars to do this is a rather out-dated, 19th century (and earlier) practice. Look to Peter Green's Penguin translation, which is a much better translation of these excellent poems.
The poetry here is racy, beautiful, funny, and provocative. The translations are well done (who am I to judge?), preserving the original intent and meaning, but the notes tend a little on the prudish side. While the notes are invaluable for a serious student (me), and especially since some translations of Ovid's Amores have no notes, this editor leaves out some pertinent information about Caesar Augustus, and family, who ruled at the time of publication, and whom Ovid addresses occasionally in his works. Also, the translator admittedly prefers the Metamorphoses, seemingly because it is gentler and more mature, so I am left wondering whether this colored his translation of the Amores--it's racy, but is it as racy as the original?
Ovid in some ways the most important of the ancient Roman poets, as author of The Metamorphosis, the compendium of ancients myths well told and enjoyably readable. This is his volumes of "love" and "romance guidance" poems brought together and make excellent and enjoyable reading.
Wonderful and came in perfect time for the class.
I see it as this: everyone should have some writers or books to constantly go back to, and re-read as time goes on, this Dryden translation of Ovid is such a masterpiece that I go back to it as much as I can.
The Love Poems (Oxford World's Classics) The Communist Manifesto (Oxford World's Classics) Reissue Edition by Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich published by Oxford University Press, USA (2008) Paperback The Poems of Catullus (Oxford World's Classics) Aloha: Love, Suite Love/Fixed by Love/Game of Love/It All Adds Up to Love (Inspirational Romance Collection) Love's Unending Legacy/Love's Unfolding Dream/Love Takes Wing/Love Finds a Home (Love Comes Softly Series 5-8) Revelations of Divine Love (Oxford World's Classics) Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics) Love, Love, Love (Modern Classics) The Oxford Companion to Popular Music (Oxford Quick Reference) The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (Oxford Quick Reference) Oxford Bible Atlas 4th (fourth) Edition by Curtis, Adrian published by Oxford University Press, USA (2009) The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies (Oxford Handbooks) The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse) The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend (Oxford Quick Reference) The Oxford Companion to the Bible (Oxford Companions) The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy (Oxford Handbooks) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology (Oxford Handbooks) The Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology (Oxford Handbooks) Diccionario Oxford Complutense de Ciencias / Oxford Dictionary of Science Complutense (Spanish Edition) Othello: Oxford School Shakespeare (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
