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An authoritative study of the development of English classical scholarship from 1500 to 1950, concentrating on the three giants: Bentley, Porson, and Housman.
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 immense advances 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'.
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 immense advances 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'.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 260
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
25 February 2010
Trim Size: 9.17 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9780227172995
Format: Paperback
Classical education is one thing, critical scholarship is another, and in his sketch of the history of Classical education in England, built around a detailed treatment of its three most celebrated figures, Professor Brink is concerned above all to describe and to make a case for the element of critical scholarship that Classical education may contain.
— Hugh Lloyd-Jones
— Hugh Lloyd-Jones
1. The way to Bentley: the New Learning in England; the seventeenth century, Thomas Gataker and John Pearson.
2. Richard Bentley and Trinity College, Cambridge.
3. The inauguration of the great age of classical scholarship: Bentley's Epistola ad Joannem Millium and A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris.
4. Bentley the textual critic.
5. The way from Bentley.
6. Porson and the Porsonians.
7. Classical education and scholarship in the Victorian age.
8. A. E. Housman: life, poetry and the fault-finders.
9. Housman the textual critic and classical scholar.
2. Richard Bentley and Trinity College, Cambridge.
3. The inauguration of the great age of classical scholarship: Bentley's Epistola ad Joannem Millium and A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris.
4. Bentley the textual critic.
5. The way from Bentley.
6. Porson and the Porsonians.
7. Classical education and scholarship in the Victorian age.
8. A. E. Housman: life, poetry and the fault-finders.
9. Housman the textual critic and classical scholar.