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...through remnants of the Phillipps heap, found the prize of his collection. There, scattered loosely, in virtually perfect condition, were the 272 pages of what is believed to be the first book with English illustrations ever prepared for printing. They formed the first nine books of a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Books 10 through 15, unillustrated, were given to Cambridge University by Diarist Samuel Pepys 278 years ago. Put together by William Caxton, the 15th century Englishman who first set English in movable type, the first half of the Ovid manuscript brought a record auction price...
...inspiration, although they were conceived and executed in England. The manuscript may never have been published by Caxton's London press at the Sign of the Red Pale. In fact, the printer had to work hard to keep it from being proscribed as the product of a pagan. Ovid was a Roman, but Caxton illustrated the book with the ancient poet praying, described as "atte begynnynge of his booke maketh invocation for help and dyvyn ayde...
...least actually plays the 'cello on stage. And when Lucentio (Robert Benedict) pretends to give Bianca a Latin lesson, "Hic ibat Simois," etc. has been supplanted by "Gallia est omnis," etc. on the undoubtedly accurate grounds that Caesar's De Bello Gallico will be more familiar to audiences than Ovid's Heroides. One wonders, however, why any of these three gentlemen would want to marry Bianca, for Geneva Bugbee makes her an insipid nullity...
...fagotry and fellatio are different from the realists of sex like Zola, the sentimentalists of sex like D. H. Lawrence, the poetic demons of sex like Baudelaire. They are different from the good old-fashioned pornographers like Fanny Hill's Cleland or the masters of bawdry from Ovid to Aretino, Rabelais, Boccaccio and (in an off moment) Mark Twain. However unconventional, these writers found delight in sex; however critical of human folly, they were partisans of mankind. The new immoralists attack not only society but man and sex itself. Their writings add up to homosexual nihilism, and what Fanny...
...classical, almost Roman temperament who speaks in a modern voice. Milwaukee-born, Gregory concentrated on Latin and English literature at the University of Wisconsin, published translations of Catullus at the beginning of his writing career, and went back to translating in the past decade with satisfying selections from Ovid. He taught at Sarah Lawrence for 26 years until sickness forced him to retire in 1960. His first original poems were sketches and dramatic monologues of working-class New Yorkers just as the Depression began, and though his vision has become more complex, he has continued to be characteristically a poet...