
This approach was intended to promote insixth-formers and undergraduates not just an understanding ofthe Latin but a critical appreciation of literary quality. Itwas one of two editions (the other being Gordon Williams'quotHorace 'Odes' IIIquot, 1969) in which OUP pioneered anew kind of continuous running commentary particularly suitedto short poems, one 'likely to be more illuminating than a seriesof disconnected notes on isolated problems, which maycontribute little to the total understanding of the poem as thepoet conceived it'. It has been kept in print byBCP because it remains an outstandlingly useful volume. Ovid: Amores I (Latin Texts)Copy link in description to download thisbookThis edition of the first book of Ovid's quotAmoresquot wasfirst published in 1973 by OUP. It was one of two editions (the other being Gordon Williams' quotHorace 'Odes' IIIquot, 1969) in which OUP pioneered a new kind of continuous running commentary particularly suited to short poems, one 'likel

It has been kept in print by BCP because it remains an outstandlingly useful volume. This edition of the first book of Ovid's quotAmoresquot was first published in 1973 by OUP.
