Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Stories From Ovid in Hexameter Verse: With Notes for School Use and Marginal References to the Public School Latin Primer
Now that verse-making is taking a less prominent place in most of our schools, I cannot think it wise to take Ovid's Elegiac Poems as reading-books for low forms. We have long been slaves to this habit, from the supposed necessity of having Elegiacs for repetition lessons but Elegiac Poetry, from its metrical bonds, and consequent conciseness and antithesis, is too subtle to be appreciated so soon. The Metamorphoses are more free from these bonds, and are quite easy enough for young scholars, while in the interest of the story, and the poetical beauty Of the descriptions, the same poet's hand is visible throughout.
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