Winsor
Owen Wister
The Philadelphia Society
for the Promotion of Liberal
Studies.
Owen Wister
The Philadelphia Society
for the Promotion of Liberal
Studies.
Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence
Ovid and his influence, by Edward Kennard Rand.
Rand, Edward Kennard, 1871-1945.
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EDITORS
George Depue Hadzsits, Ph. D.
University of Pennsylvania
David Moore Robinson, Ph. D. , LL. D.
The Johns Hopkins University
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? CONTRIBUTORS TO THE "OUR DEBT TO
GREECE AND ROME FUND," WHOSE
GENEROSITY HAS MADE POSSIBLE
THE LIBRARY
flDur SDebt to CBmct ana Eome
Philadelphia
Dr. Astley P. C. Ashhurst
William L. Austin
John C. Bell
Henry H. Bonnell
Jasper Yeates Brinton
George Burnham, Jr.
John Cadwalader
Miss Clara Comegys
Miss Mary E. Converse
Arthur G. Dickson
William M. Elkins
H. H. Furness, Jr.
William P. Gest
John Gribbel
Samuel F. Houston
Charles Edward Ingersoll
John Story Jenks
Alba B. Johnson
Miss Nina Lea
Horatio G. Lloyd
George McFadden
Mrs. John Markoe
Jules E. Mastbaum
J. Vaughan Merrick
Effingham B. Morris
William R. Murphy
John S. Newbold
S. Davis Page (memorial)
Owen J. Roberts
Joseph G. Rosengarten
William C. Sproul
John B. Stetson, Jr.
Dr. J. William White
(memorial)
George D. Widener
Mrs. James D. Winsor
Owen Wister
The Philadelphia Society
for the Promotion of Liberal
Studies.
Boston
Oric Bates (. memorial)
Frederick P. Fish
William Amory Gardner
Joseph Clark Hoppin
Chicago
Herbert W. Wolff
Cincinnati
Charles Phelps Taft
Cleveland
Samuel Mather
Detroit
John W. Anderson
Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
"A Lover of Greece and
Rome"
New York
John Jay Chapman
Willard V. King
Thomas W. Lamont
Dwight W. Morrow
Mrs. D. W. Morrow
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? OVID
AND HIS INFLUENCE
MARSHALL JONES COMPANY
BOSTON ? MASSACHUSETTS
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? COPYRIGHT - 1925 - BY MARSHALL JONES COMPANY
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? CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
Contributors to the Fund . . . . ii
Preface xi
I. Ovid in the World of Poetry . . . 3
1. The Poet of Love 9
i. Corinna 9
ii. The Beginnings of a Greater
Plan 16
Medea 16
Heroides 18
The Double Epistles . . . . 27
iii. The Art of Love 33
iv. The Remedies of Love . . . . 48
2. The Poet of Transformations . . 54
3.
Winsor
Owen Wister
The Philadelphia Society
for the Promotion of Liberal
Studies.
Boston
Oric Bates (. memorial)
Frederick P. Fish
William Amory Gardner
Joseph Clark Hoppin
Chicago
Herbert W. Wolff
Cincinnati
Charles Phelps Taft
Cleveland
Samuel Mather
Detroit
John W. Anderson
Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
"A Lover of Greece and
Rome"
New York
John Jay Chapman
Willard V. King
Thomas W. Lamont
Dwight W. Morrow
Mrs. D. W. Morrow
? ? Senatori Societatis Philoso-
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? OVID
AND HIS INFLUENCE
MARSHALL JONES COMPANY
BOSTON ? MASSACHUSETTS
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? CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
Contributors to the Fund . . . . ii
Preface xi
I. Ovid in the World of Poetry . . . 3
1. The Poet of Love 9
i. Corinna 9
ii. The Beginnings of a Greater
Plan 16
Medea 16
Heroides 18
The Double Epistles . . . . 27
iii. The Art of Love 33
iv. The Remedies of Love . . . . 48
2. The Poet of Transformations . . 54
3. The Poet of the Pagan Year . . . 76
4. The Poet in Exile 89
Tristia 92
Last Works 101
Epistulae ex Ponto 104
II. Ovid Through the Centuries . . . 108
1. Ovid in the Middle Ages . . . . 112
i. Elegiac Comedies 114
ii. The Tale 116
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CHAPTER PAGE
iii. Vagabond Poetry and Satire 117
iv. Romance and Epic 123
v. Arts of Love and the Knightly
Code 125
vi. Forgeries 128
vii. Ovid's Transformations . . . . 131
Ovidius Ethicus 131
Ovidius Theologus 134
Ovidius Medicus 137
Ovidius Magnus 138
Ovid's Alter Ego 141
viii. Dante and Chaucer 143
Dante 143
Chaucer 14S
2. Ovid in the Renaissance 150
i. Petrarch and Boccaccio . . . . 150
ii. Neo-Latin Poetry 152
3. Ovid in Modern Poetry 156
III. Ovid the Modern 168
Notes 177
Bibliography 180
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? ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATE FACING PAGE
I. Solmona. From the frontispiece to
Keppel Craven, Excursions in the
Abruzzi and Northern Provinces
of Naples, Vol. II, London,
1838 Frontispiece
II. The Poet in Exile. From the
frontispiece to J. C. Poncelin,
Oeuvres Complettes d'Ovide, Vol.
VII, Paris, An VII 90
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? PREFACE
OUR debt to Ovid! What, save the
warning of an awful example, does
our age owe to a professed roui, the
author of a monument so dangerously typical
of his degenerate society that the ruler of Rome
banished him to a frozen land and excluded
his book from the libraries? It would seem as
if Ovid's influence ended and ought to have
ended then and there. Somehow it has sur-
vived. In certain momentous periods of human
history, Ovid's name has shone brightly among
the immortals. Part of his fame, of course, is
due to other works besides the Art of Love.
It may be, further, that Augustus and the
Puritans of his time, and the Puritans of other
times, did not quite understand the qualities
of that poem or the character of its author.
Ovid is nothing if not subtle, nor had he any
desire to present his apologies to those who
could not see what he was about. Moralists
have put him on their black list again and
again. His art, too, has seemed to many steeped
[xi]
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in rhetoric and thoroughly insincere. Accord-
ing to Mr. Palgrave, no mean judge of letters,
he is "amongst world-famous poets, perhaps
the least true to the soul of poetry. " Today,
in our own country certainly, he is hardly more
than a school-book. He has surmounted the
Alps of the centuries ut declamatio fiat. His
own imagination could have contrived no more
horrible metamorphosis than this. But why
should one try to revive him? What is our
debt to him?
[xii]
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Rand, Edward Kennard, 1871-1945.
Boston, Mass. , Marshall Jones company [c1925]
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EDITORS
George Depue Hadzsits, Ph. D.
University of Pennsylvania
David Moore Robinson, Ph. D. , LL. D.
The Johns Hopkins University
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? CONTRIBUTORS TO THE "OUR DEBT TO
GREECE AND ROME FUND," WHOSE
GENEROSITY HAS MADE POSSIBLE
THE LIBRARY
flDur SDebt to CBmct ana Eome
Philadelphia
Dr. Astley P. C. Ashhurst
William L. Austin
John C. Bell
Henry H. Bonnell
Jasper Yeates Brinton
George Burnham, Jr.
John Cadwalader
Miss Clara Comegys
Miss Mary E. Converse
Arthur G. Dickson
William M. Elkins
H. H. Furness, Jr.
William P. Gest
John Gribbel
Samuel F. Houston
Charles Edward Ingersoll
John Story Jenks
Alba B. Johnson
Miss Nina Lea
Horatio G. Lloyd
George McFadden
Mrs. John Markoe
Jules E. Mastbaum
J. Vaughan Merrick
Effingham B. Morris
William R. Murphy
John S. Newbold
S. Davis Page (memorial)
Owen J. Roberts
Joseph G. Rosengarten
William C. Sproul
John B. Stetson, Jr.
Dr. J. William White
(memorial)
George D. Widener
Mrs. James D. Winsor
Owen Wister
The Philadelphia Society
for the Promotion of Liberal
Studies.
Boston
Oric Bates (. memorial)
Frederick P. Fish
William Amory Gardner
Joseph Clark Hoppin
Chicago
Herbert W. Wolff
Cincinnati
Charles Phelps Taft
Cleveland
Samuel Mather
Detroit
John W. Anderson
Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
"A Lover of Greece and
Rome"
New York
John Jay Chapman
Willard V. King
Thomas W. Lamont
Dwight W. Morrow
Mrs. D. W. Morrow
? ? Senatori Societatis Philoso-
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? OVID
AND HIS INFLUENCE
MARSHALL JONES COMPANY
BOSTON ? MASSACHUSETTS
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? COPYRIGHT - 1925 - BY MARSHALL JONES COMPANY
All rights reserved
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? CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
Contributors to the Fund . . . . ii
Preface xi
I. Ovid in the World of Poetry . . . 3
1. The Poet of Love 9
i. Corinna 9
ii. The Beginnings of a Greater
Plan 16
Medea 16
Heroides 18
The Double Epistles . . . . 27
iii. The Art of Love 33
iv. The Remedies of Love . . . . 48
2. The Poet of Transformations . . 54
3.
Winsor
Owen Wister
The Philadelphia Society
for the Promotion of Liberal
Studies.
Boston
Oric Bates (. memorial)
Frederick P. Fish
William Amory Gardner
Joseph Clark Hoppin
Chicago
Herbert W. Wolff
Cincinnati
Charles Phelps Taft
Cleveland
Samuel Mather
Detroit
John W. Anderson
Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
"A Lover of Greece and
Rome"
New York
John Jay Chapman
Willard V. King
Thomas W. Lamont
Dwight W. Morrow
Mrs. D. W. Morrow
? ? Senatori Societatis Philoso-
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? OVID
AND HIS INFLUENCE
MARSHALL JONES COMPANY
BOSTON ? MASSACHUSETTS
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? COPYRIGHT - 1925 - BY MARSHALL JONES COMPANY
All rights reserved
Printed September, 1925
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA
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? CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
Contributors to the Fund . . . . ii
Preface xi
I. Ovid in the World of Poetry . . . 3
1. The Poet of Love 9
i. Corinna 9
ii. The Beginnings of a Greater
Plan 16
Medea 16
Heroides 18
The Double Epistles . . . . 27
iii. The Art of Love 33
iv. The Remedies of Love . . . . 48
2. The Poet of Transformations . . 54
3. The Poet of the Pagan Year . . . 76
4. The Poet in Exile 89
Tristia 92
Last Works 101
Epistulae ex Ponto 104
II. Ovid Through the Centuries . . . 108
1. Ovid in the Middle Ages . . . . 112
i. Elegiac Comedies 114
ii. The Tale 116
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? CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
iii. Vagabond Poetry and Satire 117
iv. Romance and Epic 123
v. Arts of Love and the Knightly
Code 125
vi. Forgeries 128
vii. Ovid's Transformations . . . . 131
Ovidius Ethicus 131
Ovidius Theologus 134
Ovidius Medicus 137
Ovidius Magnus 138
Ovid's Alter Ego 141
viii. Dante and Chaucer 143
Dante 143
Chaucer 14S
2. Ovid in the Renaissance 150
i. Petrarch and Boccaccio . . . . 150
ii. Neo-Latin Poetry 152
3. Ovid in Modern Poetry 156
III. Ovid the Modern 168
Notes 177
Bibliography 180
[viii]
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? ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATE FACING PAGE
I. Solmona. From the frontispiece to
Keppel Craven, Excursions in the
Abruzzi and Northern Provinces
of Naples, Vol. II, London,
1838 Frontispiece
II. The Poet in Exile. From the
frontispiece to J. C. Poncelin,
Oeuvres Complettes d'Ovide, Vol.
VII, Paris, An VII 90
M
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? PREFACE
OUR debt to Ovid! What, save the
warning of an awful example, does
our age owe to a professed roui, the
author of a monument so dangerously typical
of his degenerate society that the ruler of Rome
banished him to a frozen land and excluded
his book from the libraries? It would seem as
if Ovid's influence ended and ought to have
ended then and there. Somehow it has sur-
vived. In certain momentous periods of human
history, Ovid's name has shone brightly among
the immortals. Part of his fame, of course, is
due to other works besides the Art of Love.
It may be, further, that Augustus and the
Puritans of his time, and the Puritans of other
times, did not quite understand the qualities
of that poem or the character of its author.
Ovid is nothing if not subtle, nor had he any
desire to present his apologies to those who
could not see what he was about. Moralists
have put him on their black list again and
again. His art, too, has seemed to many steeped
[xi]
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in rhetoric and thoroughly insincere. Accord-
ing to Mr. Palgrave, no mean judge of letters,
he is "amongst world-famous poets, perhaps
the least true to the soul of poetry. " Today,
in our own country certainly, he is hardly more
than a school-book. He has surmounted the
Alps of the centuries ut declamatio fiat. His
own imagination could have contrived no more
horrible metamorphosis than this. But why
should one try to revive him? What is our
debt to him?
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