Originally published in 1906, this volume gathers together the candidate praelections for the Regius Professorship of Greek at the University of Cambridge, given during January 1906 at the Senate House. Each candidate was required to provide a one-hour lecture on a passage of Ancient Greek assigned by the Electors of the post. A chapter is given to each candidate as follows: Henry Jackson on Plato, Cratylus, chapters 42 44; James Adam on Pindar, fragment, 131; A. W. Verrall on Aeschylus, Eumenides, 734 743; Walter Headlam on Aeschylus, Agamemnon, second Chorus; William Ridgeway on Aeschylus,...
Originally published in 1906, this volume gathers together the candidate praelections for the Regius Professorship of Greek at the University of Cambr...
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...
Arthur Woolgar Verrall (1851 1912) was a classicist, a lecturer, and the first Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. During ...
