Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

Abstract

List of plates Contributors Preface 1. Introduction Charles Martindale 2. Daedalus and Icarus (i) From Rome to the end of the Middle Ages Niall Rudd 3. Daedalus and Icarus (ii) From the Renaissance to the present day Niall Rudd 4. Ovid the Crusader C. W. Grocock 5. Chaucer and Ovid: a question of authority Helen Cooper 6. Lessons from the Great Clerk: Ovid and John Gower Bruce Harbert 7. Original fictions: metamorphoses in The Faerie Queene Colin Burrow 8. Ovid and the Elizabethans Laurence Lerner 9. Ovid's Narcissus and Shakespeare's Richard II: the reflected self A. D. Nuttall 10. Illustrating Ovid Nigel Llewellyn 11. Dryden and Ovid's 'Wit out of season' David Hopkins 12. The Heroides and the English Augustans Rachel Trickett 13. Some versions of Pygmalion Jane M. Miller 14. Ovid and the nineteenth century Norman Vance 15. T. S. Eliot's Metamorphoses: Ovid and The Waste Land Stephen Medcalf Appendix Notes Bibliography Plates Index of Ovidian passages General index.