C. H. Sisson’s Metamorphoses and the “New Age of Ovid”

This paper deals with the poem Metamorphoses, published by C. H. Sisson in 1968 in the same-titled collection and directly inspired by Ovid’s major poem. C. H. Sisson’s poem shares many features with most of the rewritings of Ovid’s poem which were to appear during the «New Age of Ovid», which began in 1994 with the collection After Ovid. New Metamorphoses edited by Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun, and which is still ongoing – like the fragmentary and heterogeneous nature, the “defamiliarizing” approach (for which see S. Hinds, Defamiliarizing Latin Literature, from Petrarch to Pulp Fiction, «Transactions of the American Philological Association» 135, 2005, 49-81), and the fusion of the classical paradigm with one or more other paradigms –, so that it could be seen as an anticipation of those works.