SOURCE: Braden, Gordon. “Golding's Ovid.” In The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry: Three Case Studies, pp. 1-54. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
In the following excerpt, Braden compares Golding's Metamorphosis to other translations of Ovid's poetry to demonstrate how Golding's version reflects—and does not reflect—his Puritanism, sense of humor, and humanist bent. Braden also addresses Golding's influence as the creator of one of the most-read poems in the English language during the flowering of Renaissance poetry and verse drama.
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