The Art of Love - Hardcover
The classical High Priest of Love, himself a masterful lover and a dilettante psychoanalyst of the feminine sex, reveals all the stratagems that lovers have used, or ever will use, the world over, and gives shrewd, ever-new counsel.
Translated by Charles D. Young together with the Elegies translated by Christopher Marlowe. The art of love―Love's remedy―The art of beauty―The loves―Elegies. The Black and Gold Library comprises a selection of the world’s most popular and most significant literature―from Plato to Freud and Aristophanes to Hart Crane. “The publishers are to be congratulated for the respect paid to scholarship, for the diversity and essential interest of the issuer, and for a performance in bookmaking that ranks with the finest contemporary accomplishments in this line.” ―Philadelphia Record"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses, came under severe criticism for The Art of Love, which playfully instructed women in the art of seduction and men in the skills essential for mastering the art of romantic conquest. In this remarkable translation, James Michie breathes new life into the notorious Roman's mock-didactic elegy. In lyrical, irreverent English, he reveals love's timeless dilemmas and Ovid's enduring brilliance as both poet and cultural critic.
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“Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication, and if we take Ovid as a typical spokesman we should have to conclude that the keynote of his age was elegance. . . . Ovid could not possibly have taken himself, nor be taken for, an Ancient.”—Rolfe Humphries
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- PublisherLiveright
- Publication date1943
- ISBN 10 0871408627
- ISBN 13 9780871408624
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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