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

This book is a study of Ovid and his poetry as a cultural phenomenon, conceived in the belief that such a study of tradition also casts fresh light on Ovid himself. Its main concern is with exploring the influence of Ovid on literature, especially English literature, but it also takes a wider perspective, including, for example, the visual arts. It takes the form of a series of studies which cover topics including Ovid's influence on Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Dryden, T. S. Eliot, the myths of Daedalus and Icarus and Pygmalion, and the influence of Ovid's poetry on art.Martindale, Charles is the author of 'Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century', published 1988 under ISBN 9780521307710 and ISBN 0521307716.