This book is a study of Ovid and his poetry as a cultural phenomenon.
List of plates; Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction Charles Martindale; 2. Daedalus and Icarus (i) From Rome to the end of the Middle Ages Niall Rudd; 3. Daedalus and Icarus (ii) From the Renaissance to the present day Niall Rudd; 4. Ovid the Crusader C. W. Grocock; 5. Chaucer and Ovid: a question of authority Helen Cooper; 6. Lessons from the Great Clerk: Ovid and John Gower Bruce Harbert; 7. Original fictions: metamorphoses in The Faerie Queene Colin Burrow; 8. Ovid and the Elizabethans Laurence Lerner; 9. Ovid's Narcissus and Shakespeare's Richard II: the reflected self A. D. Nuttall; 10. Illustrating Ovid Nigel Llewellyn; 11. Dryden and Ovid's 'Wit out of season' David Hopkins; 12. The Heroides and the English Augustans Rachel Trickett; 13. Some versions of Pygmalion Jane M. Miller; 14. Ovid and the nineteenth century Norman Vance; 15. T. S. Eliot's Metamorphoses: Ovid and The Waste Land Stephen Medcalf; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Plates; Index of Ovidian passages; General index.