The Influence of Ovid on Elizabethan Mythology Poetry
FAIN: FB-11527-73
Mary H. Tyson
City College of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA 94112-1898)
To research the literature of England during the last decade of the 16th century. There was a sudden revival of a genre, the mythological narrative poetry in the Ovidian manner. It had a sudden beginning and a sudden end in 1599, when church ordinances forbade the writings of satires and erotic poems.