Ted Hughes: TALES FROM OVID - W3 [2002] paperback PHOTO Northern Greece

Northern Greece

A Farewell to Arms

Several original unpublished derivations are included

even in the face of oppression and uncertainty

1 in the World Rankings are positive brushstrokes

Ted Hughes: TALES FROM OVID - W3 [2002] paperback PHOTO Northern GreeceWhen Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original, but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poet were somehow the same person. Tales from Ovid,