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Brookes More
A poet, translator, and admirer of classical mythology, Brookes More is best known for his graceful English translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. His writing also ranged from wartime poetry and romantic verse to narrative poems drawn from ancient legend.
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Songs of a Red Cross nurse
by Brookes More
About the author
Brookes More (1859–1942) was an American poet who came originally from Ohio and later moved to the East Coast, where he lived and worked. He published a substantial body of poetry, including The Beggar’s Vision, The Ring of Love, Hero and Leander, and Songs of a Red Cross Nurse, a collection inspired by the First World War.
More’s most enduring literary achievement was his English translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, first published in Boston in 1922 in blank verse. He also wrote poems and stories inspired by Greek and Roman mythology, bringing classical subjects to a broad English-speaking readership. His life and work were later chronicled by his son-in-law, the poet and biographer Wilmon Brewer, in Life and Poems of Brookes More (1940).