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William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser both loved Arthur Golding's 1565 translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Ezra Pound was so impressed that he compared Golding to Milton and Chaucer. Despite (or perhaps because of) some translation liberties and idiosyncratic spellings, Golding's Ovid remains one of the most beautiful and fun versions of Metamorphoses.

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