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"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard."-Washington Post
This new translation reproduces in modern idiom the graceful, fluent style of one of the great poets of classical antiquity.
More Reviews and RecommendationsCharles Martin is Professor of English Emeritus at Queensborough Community College at the City University of New York. Martin's fourth book of poems, Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, as were two previous volumes, What Darkness Proposes and Steal the Bacon. He is the translator of the widely acclaimed The Poems of Catullus and the author of a critical study of Catullus. His translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses won the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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October 03, 2002: Barnes and Noble puts the same review and description on most of the translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses. I only just got my copy of this book so I won't rank it but please do not rely on Barnes and Noble's review and commentary.