Sorrows of an Exile

Download or read book Sorrows of an Exile written by Ovid and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affirmation. Both directly and, as befitted the Roman Callimachus, allusively, Ovid repeatedly asserts, often with a wit and irony that borders on defiance, his conviction of the injustice of his sentence and of the pre-eminence of the eternal values of poetry over the ephemeral dictates of an earthly power. These elegies are throughout informed by Ovid's awareness of a continuing pride in his poetic identity and mission. In technical skill and inventiveness, they rank.