Steven Runciman on the writing of history From the preface to volume one of his history of the Crusades:It may seem unwise for one British pen to compete with the massed typewriters of the Uni Continue Reading →
Housman’s letters again Another review of Archie Burnett’s edition of Housman’s letters has appeared, this time by Paul Johnson in the Literary Review. Johnson is wrong when Continue Reading →
West on Passages of Disputed Authenticity In M.L. West’s commentary on the Theogony, he remarks in his introduction to the Typhoeus passage (820-80) that it is ‘one of the sections of the Theo Continue Reading →
