Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, Charles Martins blank-verse translation of the Metamorphoses is a smoothly readable, accurate, charming, subtle yet clear (Richard Wilbur) version that highlights [ the poems] lightness and pervasive sense of universal mutability (Michael Dirda).
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| A Note on the Translation |
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Book 1 The Shaping of Changes |
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Book 2 Of Mortal Children and Immortal Lusts |
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67 | (27) |
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Book 4 Spinning Yarns and Weaving Tales |
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94 | (31) |
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Book 5 Contests of Arms and Song |
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125 | (25) |
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Book 6 Of Praise and Punishment |
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150 | (29) |
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Book 7 Of the Ties That Bind |
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179 | (35) |
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Book 8 Impious Acts and Exemplary Lives |
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214 | (34) |
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Book 9 Desire, Deceit, and Difficult Deliveries |
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248 | (32) |
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Book 10 The Songs of Orpheus |
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280 | (24) |
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Book 11 Rome Begins at Troy |
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304 | (32) |
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Book 12 Around and about the Iliad |
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336 | (26) |
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Book 13 Spoils of War and Pangs of Love |
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362 | (39) |
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Book 14 Around and about with Aeneas |
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Book 15 Prophetic Acts and Visionary Dreams |
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| Notes |
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| Persons, Places, and Personifications in the Metamorphoses |
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Charles Martin was born in New York City in 1942. He earned a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The recipient of numerous awards, Martin has received the Bess Hokin Prize, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Three of his poetry collectionsSteal the Bacon (1987), What the Darkness Proposes (1996), and Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems (2002)have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ovids Metamorphoses won the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern studies, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to Homers Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. She lives in Philadelphia.
