Hi Welcome back on my blog, meet again with me "the miss wormbook" ,Kelsey. This time I will discuss one of my favorite books with the title of Ovid As An Epic Poet
By:"Brooks Otis"
Published on 2010-06-10 by Cambridge University Press
This book also one of my favourite category on"History"
For the second edition of his study of the Metamorphoses, which was originally published in 1970, Professor Otis wrote a new concluding chapter. He took account of the constructive reviews of the first edition and of a number of important books published during the years following its publication; he also removed what had emerged as ambiguities in his collections and made some correction of emphasis to his judgments. Ovid's Metamorphoses is the 'other' epic of the Augustan age, at once like and unlike the greater, more profound, epic of Virgil. In his study of the poems' structure, Professor Otis shows that the real unity of the poem is to be sought not in the linkage but in the order or succession of episodes, motifs and ideas. The poem is nothing less than what Ovid called it, a carmen perpetuum, a narrative poem with a real continuity achieved by a gradual shift of emotional emphasis through a long series of episodes arranged in an elaborate pattern. The facts on which Professor Otis's interpretation is based are commonly known; but the interpretation itself-especially in the examination of Ovid's use of his sources-its original and illuminating.
This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword poet.
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