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A.E. Housman: Finding a Path to Flourish, Hardback Book

A.E. Housman: Finding a Path to Flourish Hardback

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This study looks at this enigmatic person, our greatest classicist who penned some of the loveliest poetry ever written.He failed his Finals but still became Professor of Latin at both University College, London, and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge.

Despite being regarded as our greatest classicist he devoted 27 years to translating a Latin poet of the third rank whom Housman himself summed up as ' facile and frivolous.' Regarded as an intellectual machine and with the tools afforded him by his mastery of great prose Housman took up the challenge of textual criticism, rectifying in his mind the hitherto poor classical scholarship of his contemporaries and of those who preceded him.

The author advocates a reason for these strange paradoxes, a theory not propounded, before that he was on the autistic spectrum.

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