J W Mackail
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J W Mackail |
| GIVEN NAMES | J W |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackail |
| SIGNATURE | MACKAIL J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor of Poetry in Oxford. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1913 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris
Catullus (84 54BCE) couples consummate poetic artistry with intensity of feeling. Tibullus (c. 54 19 BCE) proclaims love for Delia and Nemesis in elegy. The beautiful verse of the Pervigilium Veneris (fourth century CE?) celebrates a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love
Studies in Humanism
Virgil and His Meaning to the World of To-day
An Old Song Re Written (Henry Lawes' “Second Book of Ayres”)
AN OLD SONG RE WRITTEN (HENRY LAWES' “SECOND BOOK OF AYRES”) Get access J. W. MACKAIL J. W. MACKAIL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume II, Issue 1, January 1921, Page 2, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/II.1.2 Published: 01 January 1921
An old song re-written
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus has in this country long suffered undue and unfortunate neglect. No edition of him, so far as I know, has ever been produced in England. A translation executed between thirty and forty years ago by the late Professor C. D. Yonge, for Bohn's Classical Library, is, I think, not now readily accessible. Mr. Fisher, before he was called from the University of Sheffield to a larger and more laborious sphere, had bestowed much study…
Russia’s Gift to the World of Literature
Essay| November 01 1915 Russia’s Gift to the World of Literature J. W. Mackail J. W. Mackail Professor of Poetry in Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1915) 3 (2): 367–371. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1915.3.2.367 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon …
Virgil and Roman Studies
“Virgile,” Sainte-Beuve wrote between fifty and sixty years ago in words which have become classical, “depuis l'heure où il parut a été le poète de la Latinité toute entière.” The saying has long been noted as marking what may be called the reinstatement of Virgil as a poet, after a period in which he had suffered some partial eclipse under the ignorant and impatient attacks of the romantic school. But to us now it may bear a further and a larger…
Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris
Catullus (84 54BCE) couples consummate poetic artistry with intensity of feeling. Tibullus (c. 54 19 BCE) proclaims love for Delia and Nemesis in elegy. The beautiful verse of the Pervigilium Veneris (fourth century CE?) celebrates a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love
Virgil and Roman Studies
“Virgile,” Sainte-Beuve wrote between fifty and sixty years ago in words which have become classical, “depuis l'heure où il parut a été le poète de la Latinité toute entière.” The saying has long been noted as marking what may be called the reinstatement of Virgil as a poet, after a period in which he had suffered some partial eclipse under the ignorant and impatient attacks of the romantic school. But to us now it may bear a further and a larger…
Russia’s Gift to the World of Literature
Essay| November 01 1915 Russia’s Gift to the World of Literature J. W. Mackail J. W. Mackail Professor of Poetry in Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1915) 3 (2): 367–371. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1915.3.2.367 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon …
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus has in this country long suffered undue and unfortunate neglect. No edition of him, so far as I know, has ever been produced in England. A translation executed between thirty and forty years ago by the late Professor C. D. Yonge, for Bohn's Classical Library, is, I think, not now readily accessible. Mr. Fisher, before he was called from the University of Sheffield to a larger and more laborious sphere, had bestowed much study…
An Old Song Re Written (Henry Lawes' “Second Book of Ayres”)
AN OLD SONG RE WRITTEN (HENRY LAWES' “SECOND BOOK OF AYRES”) Get access J. W. MACKAIL J. W. MACKAIL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume II, Issue 1, January 1921, Page 2, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/II.1.2 Published: 01 January 1921
An old song re-written
Virgil and His Meaning to the World of To-day
Studies in Humanism
Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris
Catullus (84 54BCE) couples consummate poetic artistry with intensity of feeling. Tibullus (c. 54 19 BCE) proclaims love for Delia and Nemesis in elegy. The beautiful verse of the Pervigilium Veneris (fourth century CE?) celebrates a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love
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