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    ‘Dirty Dick’: The Bard of Aberdaron 1810
  • Alexander Bain: The Weaver Philosopher 1830
  • Alexander Murray: The Shepherd Scholar 1808
  • The remark was suggestive of many things, and it left me picturing the progress of the class and thinking of the way in which, for so many succeeding generations, the classics have been steeped with the peculiar atmosphere of the public schools. What proportion of Englishmen who have learnt classics at school feel that Theocritus or Plato or Thucydides signify, above all, English playing fields, English class-rooms, and the scent of English limes? Of course in such an atmosphere much evaporates - the restlessness of the Greek intellect and many other things. There is even absurdity in the way in which some story of perverted passion is pleasantly droned through a drowsy summer afternoon. But the whole
    Ancient Greek in Camden Town 1920
  • Andrew Dalzel: Professor of Greek 1779
  • Bristle the Trojan Cobbler 1707
  • Charles Thackrah and ‘The Ode not Taken’ 1831
  • Doc Holliday’s Latin Showdown 1881
  • Edgell Rickword and all that Grecian business 1920
  • Ernest Rhys: Everyman’s Guide 1906
  • Francis Williams: The Jamaican Horace 1756
  • Frere’s Tory Frog Song 1820
  • From Ploughtail to Plato: Joseph Arch 1884
  • George Psalmanazar, Made in Taiwan? 1703
  • Gilbert Collins, and the Arabic Grammar 1836
  • Henry Hawker’s First Job: Reading Homer 1883