Ted Hughes translation of Ovid contains anachronistic reference to a "nuclear blast."
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Ted Hughes Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- TranslationAncient
- Reference
Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid (London: Faber and Faber, 1997), 98-99
- Scribe/Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- People
- Ted Hughes, Ovid
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
Now he piled above him the purple
Topheavy thunderheads
Churning with tornadoes
And inescapable bolts of lightning.
Yet he did what he could to insulate
And filter
The nuclear blast
Of his naked impact---
Such as had demolished Typhoeus
And scattered his hundred hands.
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