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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Tales from Ovid about Hughes, Hughes's, England's with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Poetry.
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conversations.value: England's poet laureate Ted Hughes first turned his hand to the author's <a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0192816918/${0}">Metamorphoses</a> when he--along with other prominent English-language poets such as <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Heaney%2C%20Seamus/${0}">Seamus Heaney</a>, <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Clampitt%2C%20Amy/${0}">Amy Clampitt</a>, and <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Simic%2C%20Charles/${0}">Charles Simic</a>--contributed poems to the anthology After the author. In the three years following After the author 's publication, Hughes continued working with the Metamorphoses , eventually completing the 24 translations collected here. Culling from 250 original tales, Hughes has chosen some of the most violent and disturbing narratives the author wrote, including the stories of Echo and Narcissus, Bacchus and Pentheus, and Semele's rape by Jove. Classical purists may be offended at the occasional liberties Hughes takes with the author's words, but no one will quarrel with the force and originality of Hughes's verse, or with its narrative skill. This translation is an unusual triumph--a work informed by the passion and wit of the author, yet suffused with Hughes's own distinctive poetic sensibility.