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(3.5) | Keine | A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions, most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated classical scholar, he achieved fame in both of these diverse disciplines. Although his poetic legacy has received much scholarly analysis, and yet more attention has been devoted to reconstructing his private life, no previous work has focused on Housman the classical scholar; yet it is upon scholarship that Housman most wished to leave his mark. This timely collection of papers by leading scholars reass… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Preface One hundred and fifty years after the birth of A.E. Housman the state of Latin literature finds itself in a considerably more confused state than he, even in his most pessimistic reflections, could have imagines. | |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf EnglischKeine ▾Buchbeschreibungen A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions, most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated classical scholar, he achieved fame in both of these diverse disciplines. Although his poetic legacy has received much scholarly analysis, and yet more attention has been devoted to reconstructing his private life, no previous work has focused on Housman the classical scholar; yet it is upon scholarship that Housman most wished to leave his mark. This timely collection of papers by leading scholars reass ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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There are accessible volumes of A. E. Housman's scholarly works, such as John Carter's collection A. E. Housman: Selected Prose. This isn't such a book. Nor is it an overview of what Housman worked on -- not really. Instead, it is a series of essays by modern scholars getting into the details of what he did. Housman's life work was editing the texts of classical Latin writers, and his work in that field was noteworthy for two things: His insistence on using the stemmatic methods pioneered by Karl Lachmann (in which Housman was dead right, and the people he fulminated against dead wrong -- sez I) and his extreme willingness to engage in conjecture -- that is, instead of adopting a reading found in (some subset of) the manuscripts, to adopt one that he felt fitting. That conjecture is sometimes necessary can hardly be denied. That Housman went overboard with it is almost as certain.
But to know just how far he went, you have to know Latin, and Latin authors, and the techniques of textual criticism -- and, frankly, you have to know Housman's work on the editions involved. It's a very high bar; the random fan of Housman's poetry will surely find this book incomprehensible. Even knowing a good bit about textual criticism, I found most of it to be pretty meaningless -- I don't know enough about (say) Manilius's writing style, and the vocabulary of ancient astrology, and the forms of ancient poetry to be able to judge whether one of Housman's conjecture is necessary.
This book appears to be a print-on-demand edition (at least, the print quality is pretty poor, and has the ragged-edged type of most print-on-demand books). I suspect its extreme specialization is the reason: The demand for it is just too small for anyone to want to keep copies on the shelf. Housman was a very important textual critic, still widely quoted in manuals of the subject. (Mostly because he was so quick with a fierce, and often unfair, quip.) His methods deserve to be studied. But unless you are a critic of Latin literature yourself, you aren't likely to get much out of this book. ( )