The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

A sweeping poetic sequence recounts origin myths and a succession of mythic episodes linked by bodily and cosmic transformations. Beginning with a primal creation, the narrative moves through divine actions and mortal passions that repeatedly transmute people and things into animals, plants, stars, and other forms. Recurring motifs include love, violence, pride, and divine caprice, while shifts of tone alternate tragedy, irony, and wonder. Vivid natural imagery and formal variation unite discrete tales into a continuous arc that reflects on change, mortality, artistic representation, and the tangled relations between gods, humans, and the natural world.