Download or read book Love Poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid written by Ovid Ovid and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished, ruinous kind, like a sickness, and Ovid prescribes cures.