There are sections taken directly from his work in the poetry of Chaucer and Gower, but translation of Ovid into English as a distinct process starts in the cradle of printing, with William Caxton’s version of the Metamorphoses in 1483 and Wynkyn de Worde’s Flores de Arte Amandi in 1513. It traces a path through the history of publishing, its latest manifestations being phenomena of the modern industry: the Loeb parallel text, the Penguin Classic, and the Faber and Faber poetry volume. Arthur Golding’s translation of the Metamorphoses (1565–7) is one of several translations in his period: Turbervile’s Heroides (1567), Churchyard’s Tristia (1572), and Underdowne’s Ibis (1569) follow soon after. Each text has its own origins, Golding’s being dedicated to the Earl of Leicester under whose patronage various translation projects were under way.