The ancient Roman poet Ovid's work "Amores" elegantly weaves the themes of love, deception, and poetic aspiration. Across three books, we follow a tumultuous love affair, depicted with …

(Since Marlowe as the translator of the Amores would himself have been so aware, additional weight is lent to this line of argument): that Ovid's lover's gods were no gods and he, Faustus, …

The speaker, whose name is never revealed, is often debated as a character separate from Ovid himself. This first-person narrator shares the same birthplace, Sulmo, as Ovid, and frequently ...

Jul 3, 2024 · In the collection where "Sorrow" and "Discord in Childhood" are featured, Amores, Lawrence was attempting to articulate his own poetic expression of Modernism. Lawrence …

Amores 2. 18 is clearly a composition for the second edition; for in the poem allusion is made in no uncertain terms to the Ars amatoria and to the Heroides, both of which were published …

Ovid, in the Amores, has contempt for the lady whose sexual favors he seeks; and when English poets (such as Donne) write in the Ovidian tradition, they adopt much the same air of …

Jan 8, 2026 · Later, in the play’s final scene, Faustus echoes a line from Ovid’s Amores to express his longing for further life: O lente, lente currite noctis equi![O slowly, slowly run, O …

His earlier volumes— Amores (1916) and New Poems (1918)—had each ended with a poem to Mrs. Lawrence. Works Cited Auerbach, Nina. Woman and The Demon: The Life of a Victorian …

Donne reverts to the tone of the Amores, painting a very different scene from Flaminio's sturdy bullocks, eager traveler, and happy shepherd who go off to work whistling like the seven dwarfs:

Oct 31, 1970 · The situation in Ovid's Amores and in Petronius' The Satyricon differs from “The Imperfect Enjoyment” in that the male partners suffer impotence at the outset and not …