[lbo-talk] Blake's "London" / Ovid

[Carrol Cox]

On 10/12/2011 12:21 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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> From: "Carrol Cox"<cbcox at ilstu.edu>
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> He assumes that the point is how
> _fast_ she runs, the banality of "running as fast as a rabbit." But
> surely Ovid is focused not on her speed but on here emotional response
> to Apollo.
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> Yes. He was as talented as Byron, but deeper, in an unpretentious way.

It's been some years since I read Ovid. His turns often work in English:

They fled as though they were on wings,
They were on wings.

Carrol