Ted Hughes
Tales from Ovid
Tales from Ovid
Ted Hughes’s remarkable translation of twenty-four stories from the Metamorphoses of Ovid received the Whitbread Prize for poetry. In clear, emphatic unrhymed verse, Hughes transforms Ovid’s Latin poetry into English, giving us not only a new Ovid but a substantial new work of poetry in English, and one that speaks to our time much the way the Latin Metamorphoses did to Ovid’s.
“Tales from Ovid is the best thing Hughes has done … It will live as one of the
great works of our century.”—Michael Hofmann, The Times (London)
great works of our century.”—Michael Hofmann, The Times (London)
Poetry • 0-374-22841-8 (hardcover)
Robert Pinsky
The Inferno of Dante
A New Verse Translation—A Bilingual Edition
The Inferno of Dante
A New Verse Translation—A Bilingual Edition
“The premier modern text for English-language readers to experience Dante’s power” (Stephen Greenblatt), Robert Pinsky’s verse translation of The Inferno is more rapid and idiomatic than its predecessors; Pinsky uses slant rhyme and near rhyme to preserve Dante’s terza rima without distorting the flow of English idiom. The result is a translation that is uncommonly vigorous, uniquely readable, and faithful to the original.
“Superb … A brilliant success.”—Bernard Knox, The New York Review of Books
Poetry • 0-374-17674-4 (hardcover)
• 0-374-52452-1 (paperback—no illustrations) • 0-374-52531-5 (illustrated paperback)
Derek Walcott
Omeros
Omeros
“This massive, beguiling, sorrowful, triumphant poem is about the idea of Homer and the idea of poetry written on a homeric scale … Omeros casts the Antilles as the Cyclades of the New World, home to the main characters, Achille and Philoctete, fishermen who set out on a journey to their ancestral land, the coast of West Africa … What justifies the title of Omeros is a sense of unbridled imaginative scope, that feeling of amplitude and sensuous inclusion which we find in Homer … and which Walcott can summon as much as any poet now living.”—Michael Heyward, The Washington Post Book World
Poetry • 0-374-52350-9 (paperback)
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