Description
About the Author
Maggie Kilgour is Molson Professor of English Language and Literature at McGill University where she teaches courses in Renaissance English literature, especially Milton, and the classical tradition. She is the author of two books, From Communion to Cannibalism: An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation (1990) and The Rise of the Gothic Novel (1995).
Reviews
A rich and stimulating exploration of the implications of Milton's study of the Ovidian tradition for the substance and ambitions of his verse as a whole ... a suggestive general model of some of the ways in which poetry of the past is constantly given new life in the present. * Notes and Queries *
An intricate, thought-provoking study, rich with detail and numerous flashes of brilliant insight. ... [The author's] lively and engaging manner ensures that both students and scholars alike will find her book a pleasure to read. This fine study is a major achievement and a significant contribution both to Milton criticism and to the history of the reception of Ovid, one that opens up many promising avenues for further exploration. * The Classical Review *
Every chapter in Kilgour's book offers something valuable, and the whole is richly informative and thought-provoking. * Milton Quarterly *
A fine study of Milton and Ovid ... a skilfully woven work of criticism without a thread awry in its scholarly fabric. * Erick Ramalho, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
A major achievement ... as timely as other creative reinterpretations of Ovid today, and, though a scholarly work, belongs to the same rich field of our own transformations and interpretations of Ovid. * Goran Stanivukovic, Review of English Studies *
Many will welcome [the author's] occasional interjections of dry humor. Scholars of both classical and early modern literature and advanced graduate students should find this book essential to study of Milton's relationship to Ovid and other writers of antiquity. * Renaissance Quarterly *
Awards
Winner of Winner of the 2012 James Holly Hanford Book Award of the Milton Society of America.
Book Information
ISBN 9780198717126
Author Maggie Kilgour
Format Paperback
Page Count 398
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 141mm * 22mm