the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

Julius Caesar : Commentaries

'Read, after a long interval, with much delight, the first two Books of Caesar's "Commentaries"....'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green      Print: Book

Julius Caesar : De Bello Gallico

Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 7 April 1843: 'I have read Caesar's commentaries, to be sure, .. but I found them harder to read than his battles were to fight'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Julius Caesar : Opera omnia

MS notes in vols. I and II, including some copied from Lord Macaulay's copy of the text. Dates of reading include: "May 28 1917 Welcombe The most interesting military story I ever read, as told by the hero of it. If Pharsalia had gone the other way the Kaiser and the Czar would now be called "Pompey". An anonymous piece has the MS note: "This is far and away the worst Latin I have ever read of the great Ciceronian age of prose. The text is mortally corrupt; but besides that, the style is detestable. And yet I read it with interest." In this Sir George echoes Macaulay's comment on the same piece: "It is dreadfully corrupt."

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

Click check box to select all entries on this page: