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"The Metamorphoses of Ovid offers to the modern world such a key to the literary and religious culture of the ancients that it becomes an important event when at last a good poet comes up with a translation into English verse." -- John Crowe Ransom"... a charming and expert English version, which is right in tone for the Metamorphoses." -- Francis Fergusson"This new Ovid, fresh and faithful, is right for our time and should help to restore a great reputation." -- Mark Van DorenThe first and still the best modern verse translation of the Metamorphoses, Humphries' version of Ovid's masterpiece captures its wit, merriment, and sophistication.Everyone will enjoy this first modern translation by an American poet of Ovid's great work, the major treasury of classical mythology, which has perennially stimulated the minds of men. In this lively rendering there are no stock props of the pastoral and no literary landscaping, but real food on the table and sometimes real blood on the ground.Not only is Ovid's Metamorphoses a collection of all the myths of the time of the Roman poet as he knew them, but the book presents at the same time a series of love poems -- about the loves of men, women, and the gods. There are also poems of hate, to give the proper shading to the narrative. And pervading all is the writer's love for this earth, its people, its phenomena.Using ten-beat, unrhymed lines in his translation, Rolfe Humphries shows a definite kinship for Ovid's swift and colloquial language and Humphries' whole poetic manner is in tune with the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet.
作者简介
George Rolfe Humphries (born November 20, 1894 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - April 22, 1969 Redwood City, California) was a poet, translator, and teacher.
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伟大的抒情叙事诗，古典时期的grande folie与elegance的力量很震撼。美与暴力，爱情与仇恨，亲情与背叛，矛盾迸发激情。金句不断，人马战役的描写是全书最好的战争描写。翻译有点迷，英文翻译届喜欢用非常现代的语言，但有点出戏。
评分但是读起来还是不乏有一点痛苦的。。Apollo和Daphne故事的写得太棒了。整体打造出了宏大并且富于神性的史诗感。和小学时候看的古希腊神话故大体情节类似，但是具体人物名字似乎不一样，细节也有不同之处。
评分翻译得太美了 尤其是最后一章 “It will endure, I trust, beyond Jove's anger, fire and sword, beyond time's hunger...part of me, the better part, immortal
评分下载了Audible听。每天睡前洗漱的时候重温这些老故事，语音比读书更多了一点听故事的感觉。诸神什么的，真是暴躁的一群家伙哎
评分伟大的抒情叙事诗，古典时期的grande folie与elegance的力量很震撼。美与暴力，爱情与仇恨，亲情与背叛，矛盾迸发激情。金句不断，人马战役的描写是全书最好的战争描写。翻译有点迷，英文翻译届喜欢用非常现代的语言，但有点出戏。
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