Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
Galatea
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The Hudson Letter, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 1995 (Originally published as ‘Pygmalion and Galatea’ in M. Hofmann & J. Lasdun (ed.) After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (London: Faber and Faber, 1994). |
180-181 |
Length/Form Mostly rhyming couplets
Allusion to Classical figure Galatea, Pigmalion, Venus, Paphos
Allusion to classical place Cyprus, Paphos
Relationship to Classical text This translation is far closer to the source text than many of Mahon’s other reworking of classical material
Close translation of words/phrases/excerpts The poem is a translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses X, 245-277