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Derek Mahon: Galatea

Poem Title

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Galatea

 

The Hudson Letter, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 1995 (Originally published as ‘Pygmalion and Galatea’ in M. Hofmann & J. Lasdun (ed.) After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (London: Faber and Faber, 1994).

180-181

Length/Form Mostly rhyming couplets

Allusion to Classical figure Galatea, Pigmalion, Venus, Paphos

Allusion to classical place Cyprus, Paphos

Relationship to Classical text This translation is far closer to the source text than many of Mahon’s other reworking of classical material

Close translation of words/phrases/excerpts The poem is a translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses X, 245-277

Derek Mahon