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Died. Rolfe Humphries, 74, translator and poet whose renderings of the classics (notably Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's The Art of Love) won acclaim; of diverticulitis; in Redwood City, Calif. Humphries' translations combined the best qualities of scholar and poet: a rare sense of artistry, humor and language; his own poetry was less well received by critics, though readers enjoyed such quiet poems as "No Enemy...
...easy way out and put the blame on the playwright. For A Midsummer Night's Dream was the finest comedy in the English language until Shakespeare himself surpassed it in Twelfth Night. It is undeniably true that Dream is an unusually eclectic work, drawing its material from Plautus, Plutarch, Ovid, Apuleius, Chaucer, French romance, Italian commedia dell'arte, a couple of earlier English plays, popular folklore, and even Scot's nonfiction treatise The Discoverie of Witchcraft. But Shakespeare worked everything up into a fresh plot of his own -- or, rather, a skillfully unified interlocking set of three plots -- involving four...
...Bibles are rare as the printings of William Caxton, the first Englishman to set his language in movable type. Both are as common as telephone books compared to a handwritten Caxton manuscript. When the Englishman's 15th century translation of the first nine books of the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, a series of moralizing fables, was sold at auction in London's Sotheby's (TIME, July 8), the illustrated gem fetched $252,000-a record high for any book ever sold to the public. A New York dealer bought it, and the 272-page manuscript...
...work will be united with the last six Ovid books at Magdalene, but there is an ulterior motive behind the gift. Braziller, who says that his "greatest pleasure" was publishing a facsimile of an extremely rare 15th century Dutch manuscript, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, has the rights to reproduce the entire Caxton book in a limited edition of 1,000. Braziller will use the profits to pay Power back the $200,000. So two U.S. businessmen have combined to leave the Caxton work in Great Britain, yet permit the public to tuck a splendid facsimile away in libraries...
...said Poussin, and he found his order in Greco-Roman antiquity. Of provincial birth in Normandy, he was not able until the age of 30 to get to Rome, the world's art capital during his lifetime. There he sketched ancient ruins, read the classic Latin poetry of Ovid, dissected cadavers to learn anatomy, copied the works of Raphael...