Collected Literary Essays
Classical and Modern

The subjects of this volume range from Dante's epic poetry to Sir Walter Scott's prose, demonstrating the breadth of the author's literary consciousness and interest.

A. W. Verrall (Author), M. A. Bayfield (Edited by), J. D. Duff (Edited by)

9780521238083, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 March 2012

408 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg

Arthur Woolgar Verrall (1851–1912) was a classicist, a lecturer, and the first Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. During his academic career he published several works of scholarship, chiefly critical studies, editions, and translations of classical Greek and Latin texts, but also critiques of modern literature. In this collection of literary essays, published posthumously in 1913, the subjects of criticism range from Dante's epic poetry to Sir Walter Scott's prose, demonstrating the breadth of Verrall's literary consciousness and interest. This anthology was edited by M. A. Bayfield and J. D. Duff and includes a ninety-four-page memoir of the author, a transcript of his memorial inscription from the antechapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a commemorative address by J. W. Mackail.

Portrait, Memoir
Memorial inscription in Trinity College Chapel
Commemorative address J. W. Mackail
1. A Roman of Greater Rome, 1888 Universal Review
2. An old love story, 1888 Universal Review
3. The feast of Saturn, 1889 Universal Review
4. A tragi-comedy and a page of history, 1889 Universal Review
5. Love and law, 1889 Universal Review
6. A villa at Tivoli, 1890 Universal Review
7. 'To Follow the Fisherman': a historical problem in Dante, 1903 Independent Review
8. Dante on the Baptism of Statius, 1908 Albany Review
9. The birth of Virgil, 1907 Albany Review
10. The altar of mercy, 1907 Oxford and Cambridge Review
11. Aristophanes on Tennyson, 1909 New Quarterly
12. The prose of Walter Scott, 1910 Quarterly Review
13. 'Diana of the Crossways', 1906 National Home-Reading Union's Magazine
General index
Index of passages.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]