Classical Mythology In English Literature
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Synopsis
Bringing together a huge range of English-language renditions of three classical mythsOrpheus, Venus and Adonis, and Pygmalionthis collection begins with a 75-page introduction of material on the principle sources and figures of Greco-Roman myth, and proceeds to reprintings of numerous selections of a myth retold, largely in poems. Primarily full-text selections, but also some excerpts, are by such writers as Theocritus, Ovid, Clement of Alexandria, Shakespeare, William Collins, Lord Byron, Wordsworth, Yeats, Auden, Robert Graves, Bernard Shaw, Muriel Rukeyser, H.D., A.D. Hope, Angela Carter, and numerous others. Miles (English, U. of Wellington, New Zealand) deserves credit for an ingenious idea. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR