Collected Literary Essays Classical and Modern [Paperback]

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.Arthur Woolgar Verrall (18511912) was a classicist, a lecturer, and the first Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. In this collection, published posthumously in 1913, the subjects range from Dante's epic poetry to Sir Walter Scott's prose, demonstrating the breadth of Verrall's literary consciousness and interest.Arthur Woolgar Verrall (18511912) was a classicist, a lecturer, and the first Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. In this collection, published posthumously in 1913, the subjects range from Dante's epic poetry to Sir Walter Scott's prose, demonstrating the breadth of Verrall's literary consciousness and interest.Arthur Woolgar Verrall (18511912) 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 lã#