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He was a ruddy country gentleman with tremendous gusto and a gift for energetic doggerel

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Ovid's Metamorphoses, says Madeleine Foray, "changes in the hands of each new translator and adapter." Her introduction to a new edition of Arthur Golding's 1567 English translation of the Metamorphoses shows how he Christianizes Ovid, transforming his temples into churches with spires. The translation was influential with Shakespeare and Spenser, but its bombastic style later fell out of fashion. One recent editor complains that Golding turned the sophisticated Roman into a ruddy country gentleman with tremendous gusto and a gift for energetic doggerel.
 * From The New Yorker