John William Mackail
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Scottish academic and reformer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John William Mackail was a Scottish academic of Oxford University and reformer of the British education system. He is most often remembered as a scholar of Virgil and as the official biographer of the socialist artist William Morris, of whom he was a friend.
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Published Works
- The Life of William Morris (55)
- Lectures on Greek Poetry (8)
- Virgil and his meaning to the world of to-day (7)
- The Development of Virgil's Art (1927) (4)
- Our Debt to Greece and Rome (1924) (3)
- Virgil's works : the Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics (1950) (3)
- Poetry and business (1915) (3)
- The Aeneid, Edited, with Introduction and Commentary (1932) (2)
- The Beasts, Birds, and Bees of Virgil: A Naturalist's Handbook to the Georgics. by T.F. Royds. 7¾ × 5¼, xx + 107 pp. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1914. 3s. 6d n. (1914) (2)
- James Leigh Strachan-Davidson, Master of Balliol : a memoir (2)
- Studies of English Poets (2)
- Virgil's Use of the Word Ingens (1912) (2)
- Seneca the Philosopher (1)
- Virgil and Virgilianism: a Study of the Minor Poems attributed to Virgil (1908) (1)
- The approach to Shakespeare (1933) (1)
- The Constitution of the Aeneid (1915) (1)
- Bentley's Milton (1)
- Virgil and Roman Studies (1913) (1)
- Jebb's Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry (1894) (1)
- Poetry and democracy (1915) (1)
- William Morris: his tastes in art and literature (0)
- Virgil's Eclogues (1923) (0)
- Notes on the Greek Anthology (1892) (0)
- The pilgrim's progress : a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, March 14, 1924 (0)
- Note on Aeschylus Agam. 1060–1 (1905) (0)
- Echoes from the Greek anthology (0)
- Notes on Virgil, Georg. II. 501–2 (1896) (0)
- An old song re-written (0)
- Characters and Epithets: A Study in Vergtl's Aeneid . By N. Moseley, Professor of Classics in Albertus Magnus College. Pp. 104 + liv. London: H. Milford, 1926. 10s. 6d. (1927) (0)
- Wight Duff's Silver Age (1928) (0)
- Henry Birkhead and the foundation of the Oxford chair of poetry : a public lecture delivered in the examination schools on October 19, 1908 (0)
- A Lesson on an Ode of Horace (1921) (0)
- AN OLD SONG RE WRITTEN (HENRY LAWES' “SECOND BOOK OF AYRES”) (0)
- The Aircraftsman's Odyssey (1935) (0)
- Medallions Medallions . By Richard Aldington. Pp. 117. London: Chatto and Windus, 1930. Cloth, 3s. 6d. (1931) (0)
- Socialism and Politics : an address and programme (0)
- Prose Rhythm in English . By A. C. Clark. 9 × 6, 19 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. 1s. 6d. n. (1913) (0)
- Virgil's Secret (1928) (0)
- Butler's Post-Augustan Poetry (1909) (0)
- Sternbach's Anthology of Planudes (1890) (0)
- The Georgics in English Hexameters (1929) (0)
- Butcher's Harvard Lectures on Greek Subjects (1905) (0)
- Pastoral and Allegory: A Re-reading of the Bucolics of Virgil. By J. S. Phillimore. Pp. 32. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2s. (1926) (0)
- Virgil, Georgics II. 39–45 (1932) (0)
- The Report of the Prime Minister's Committee on the Classics in Education (1921) (0)
- Largeness in Literature (0)
- Roman Poetry (1924) (0)
- The function of a university (1915) (0)
- Studies in Humanism (1938) (0)
- The classics : presidential address delivered to the Classical association of Bristol, 11th April, 1923 (0)
- Pervigilium Veneris (1925) (0)
- Culex ‘Culex’: Sources and their Bearing on the Problem of Authorship. By D. L. Drew. Pp. v + 107. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925. (1926) (0)
- The Life of Shakespeare (1934) (0)
- Horace and his Influence (1924) (0)
- Notes on Aeneid VIII (1918) (0)
- William Morris : an address delivered the XIth November MDCCCC at Kelmscott House Hammersmith, before the Hammersmith Socialist Society (0)
- Life and Letters in the Fourth Century (1907) (0)
- Anthologia Graeca Epigrammatum Palatina cum Planudea. Vol. III. pars 1, Palatinae libri ix epp. 1-563Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (0)
- The Love of Nature Among the Romans. By Sir Archibald Geikie. 8¾ × 5¾, xii+394. London: John Murray, 1912. 9s. n. (1914) (0)
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