English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780227172995)

Professor C.O. Brink's English Classical Scholarship is the first sustained treatment since the early years of this century of the historical development of English classical scholarship. Brink shows the effect of the Italian Renaissance on nascent English scholarship and examines the contribution made by 17th century scholars such as Bishop Pearson and Thomas Gataker. He deals at length with the life of Richard Bentley, his troubled careers master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and above all the immenseadvances he made in classical studies, which were in turn developed by Richard Porson. He also shows how, paradoxically, in the Victorian era, while a classical education was seen as the key to advancement, classical scholarship almost wholly stagnated. Although the tradition of Bentley and Porson all but disappeared in England, it was nurtured by the great German scholars of the nineteenth century. It was only with the work of A. E. Housman that the tradition of the greatest classical scholars returned to its native land and Professor Brink shows how it began again to make a contribution to the 'European fund'.

Author: Co Brink
ISBN-10: 022717299X
ISBN-13: 9780227172995
Publisher: James Clarke Company
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2010
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 216