'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
'I told him of my having now read every play of Euripides; & he seemed very much surprised [...] and observed, that very few men had done as much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
I liked my solitude, even tho? I had no one to say so to - & in spite of La Bruy?re & Cowper! ? Nearly finished the Alcestis. I will finish it tomorrow, before breakfast
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
"It was when reading Gilbert Murray's rendering of Euripides' Medea, by the side of the [Shrewsbury School] cricket field, that [Neville] Cardus was noticed by the headmaster, C. A. Alington, who invited him to be his secretary after the start of the Great War."
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book
[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads Alcestes'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads the Hippolitus of Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'S reads the alcestis [sic] of Euripides.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read Georgics and Dante - S. read Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads Medea Euripedes [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus [sic] of Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
[Mary's list of Percy Shelley's reading in 1819 - database entries are based on references in the journal].
s
Euripides
Lucretius
Homer's Illiad and Odyssey'
[various torn out pages follow]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus. I read them [italics]regularly[end
italics] thro', which would have been incredible & impossible, if I had not known you. [goes on
briefly to comment on texts].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and should of all things wish to edit either the Mad Hercules or the Phoenissae: plays with which I am well acquainted.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde Print: Book
'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and should of all things wish to edit either the Mad Hercules or the Phoenissae: plays with which I am well acquainted.'
Unknown
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde Print: Book
'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to computation, of which he was all his life fond, as it fixed his attention steadily on something without, and prevented his mind from preying upon itself. Thus I find in his handwriting the number of lines in each of two of Euripides' Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the Aeneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, of some parts of Theocritus, and of the tenth satire of Juvenal; and a table, shewing at the rate of various numbers a day (I suppose verses to be read), what would be, in each case, the total amount in a week, month, and year'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'On Wednesday, June 19, Dr. Johnson and I returned to London; he was not well to-day, and said very little, employing himself chiefly in reading Euripides'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously besides, & given them to Burney for his history of Musick. here are the Burlesque ones - but they are a [italics] Caricatura [end italics] of Potter whose Verses are obscure enough too. [the verses are given] Poor Potter! he does write strange unintelligible Verses to be sure, but I think none as bad as these neither'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before".
Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
'Wilde's copy of "The Bacchae of Euripides" edited by one of his Trinity tutors, R.Y. Tyrrell, has also survived. On the title-page of the famous play... Wilde wrote "Oscar Wilde T.C.D. Trinity [i.e. summer term], 1872. Clearly intent on acquiring a "minute and critical knowledge" of the text, Wilde underlines countless words and phrases which he then presumably looked up in his lexicon; he frequently glosses lines in the drama with notes such as "C.f. Xenophanes", "C.f. [line] 342"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde Print: Book
'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved
[...]
5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's
introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the
parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds Print: Book
A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved
[...]
5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's
introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the
parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles I. Evans Print: Book
A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved
[...]
5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's
introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the
parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield Print: Book
A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved
[...]
5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's
introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the
parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: E. Dorothy Brain Print: Book
A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved
[...]
5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's
introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the
parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas C. Elliott Print: Book
A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved
[...]
5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's
introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the
parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved
[...]
5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's
introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the
parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard Print: Book
A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved
[...]
5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's
introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the
parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs C. Elliott Print: Book
A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved
[...]
5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's
introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the
parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith Print: Book
A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved
[...]
5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's
introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the
parts being taken as follows
Apollo S.A. Reynolds
Thanatos C. I. Evans
Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain
Choros T. C. Elliott
Handmaid Mrs Pollard
Admetus F. E. Pollard
Alcestis Mrs Elliott
Little Boy Mrs Pollard
Heracles H. R. Smith
Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow
Servant S. A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow Print: Book
'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard gave some account of Athens in
the fifth century B.C. — the history from the victory over the Persians, through the
tyranny of the Athenian Empire, the degradation of standards, to the fall of the
city; & in the realm of thought, the coming of the questioning spirit typified by the
sophists, Socrates & Euripides.
2. A reading from ‘The Trojan Women’ was given by Elizabeth Alexander & Mary E.
Robson, in the characters of Cassandra & Hecuba.
3. Leslie Scott, in general comments on the poet’s quality and philosophy, noted
his contradictory reputations — serious or the reverse, nationalist or idealist? With
Dr. Verrall & Gilbert Murray, his popularity had grown immensely. He is accused
of lack of restraint, but he is human. His pathos is moving, even if occasionally
overdrawn. He breaks through stage conventions, his characters are mixed, &
reveal inner conflict. He is at his best with women, though regarded at times as a
woman-hater, at others as a pioneer of her emancipation. It is almost certain that
he deliberately ridicules the Gods. [...]
4. Muriel Stevens took Iphigenia, C. E. Stansfield Orestes, & F. E. Pollard Pylades,
from the Iphigenia in Tauris — the recognition scene.
5. Mary S. W. Pollard as Andromache, & S. A. Reynolds as Talthybius, read the
tragic scene from the Trojan Women, when it is told to his mother that the little
boy Astyanax is to be killed: &
6. Hecuba’s lament for her grandchild was read by Mary E. Robson.
7. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was deferred.
[...]
[signed] Reginald H. Robson
19. 5. 1939'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth T. Alexander Print: Book
'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard gave some account of Athens in
the fifth century B.C. — the history from the victory over the Persians, through the
tyranny of the Athenian Empire, the degradation of standards, to the fall of the
city; & in the realm of thought, the coming of the questioning spirit typified by the
sophists, Socrates & Euripides.
2. A reading from ‘The Trojan Women’ was given by Elizabeth Alexander & Mary E.
Robson, in the characters of Cassandra & Hecuba.
3. Leslie Scott, in general comments on the poet’s quality and philosophy, noted
his contradictory reputations — serious or the reverse, nationalist or idealist? With
Dr. Verrall & Gilbert Murray, his popularity had grown immensely. He is accused
of lack of restraint, but he is human. His pathos is moving, even if occasionally
overdrawn. He breaks through stage conventions, his characters are mixed, &
reveal inner conflict. He is at his best with women, though regarded at times as a
woman-hater, at others as a pioneer of her emancipation. It is almost certain that
he deliberately ridicules the Gods. [...]
4. Muriel Stevens took Iphigenia, C. E. Stansfield Orestes, & F. E. Pollard Pylades,
from the Iphigenia in Tauris — the recognition scene.
5. Mary S. W. Pollard as Andromache, & S. A. Reynolds as Talthybius, read the
tragic scene from the Trojan Women, when it is told to his mother that the little
boy Astyanax is to be killed: &
6. Hecuba’s lament for her grandchild was read by Mary E. Robson.
7. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was deferred.
[...]
[signed] Reginald H. Robson
19. 5. 1939'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson Print: Book
'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard gave some account of Athens in
the fifth century B.C. — the history from the victory over the Persians, through the
tyranny of the Athenian Empire, the degradation of standards, to the fall of the
city; & in the realm of thought, the coming of the questioning spirit typified by the
sophists, Socrates & Euripides.
2. A reading from ‘The Trojan Women’ was given by Elizabeth Alexander & Mary E.
Robson, in the characters of Cassandra & Hecuba.
3. Leslie Scott, in general comments on the poet’s quality and philosophy, noted
his contradictory reputations — serious or the reverse, nationalist or idealist? With
Dr. Verrall & Gilbert Murray, his popularity had grown immensely. He is accused
of lack of restraint, but he is human. His pathos is moving, even if occasionally
overdrawn. He breaks through stage conventions, his characters are mixed, &
reveal inner conflict. He is at his best with women, though regarded at times as a
woman-hater, at others as a pioneer of her emancipation. It is almost certain that
he deliberately ridicules the Gods. [...]
4. Muriel Stevens took Iphigenia, C. E. Stansfield Orestes, & F. E. Pollard Pylades,
from the Iphigenia in Tauris — the recognition scene.
5. Mary S. W. Pollard as Andromache, & S. A. Reynolds as Talthybius, read the
tragic scene from the Trojan Women, when it is told to his mother that the little
boy Astyanax is to be killed: &
6. Hecuba’s lament for her grandchild was read by Mary E. Robson.
7. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was deferred.
[...]
[signed] Reginald H. Robson
19. 5. 1939'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Scott Manuscript: Unknown
'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard gave some account of Athens in
the fifth century B.C. — the history from the victory over the Persians, through the
tyranny of the Athenian Empire, the degradation of standards, to the fall of the
city; & in the realm of thought, the coming of the questioning spirit typified by the
sophists, Socrates & Euripides.
2. A reading from ‘The Trojan Women’ was given by Elizabeth Alexander & Mary E.
Robson, in the characters of Cassandra & Hecuba.
3. Leslie Scott, in general comments on the poet’s quality and philosophy, noted
his contradictory reputations — serious or the reverse, nationalist or idealist? With
Dr. Verrall & Gilbert Murray, his popularity had grown immensely. He is accused
of lack of restraint, but he is human. His pathos is moving, even if occasionally
overdrawn. He breaks through stage conventions, his characters are mixed, &
reveal inner conflict. He is at his best with women, though regarded at times as a
woman-hater, at others as a pioneer of her emancipation. It is almost certain that
he deliberately ridicules the Gods. [...]
4. Muriel Stevens took Iphigenia, C. E. Stansfield Orestes, & F. E. Pollard Pylades,
from the Iphigenia in Tauris — the recognition scene.
5. Mary S. W. Pollard as Andromache, & S. A. Reynolds as Talthybius, read the
tragic scene from the Trojan Women, when it is told to his mother that the little
boy Astyanax is to be killed: &
6. Hecuba’s lament for her grandchild was read by Mary E. Robson.
7. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was deferred.
[...]
[signed] Reginald H. Robson
19. 5. 1939'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Muriel Stevens Print: Book
'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard gave some account of Athens in
the fifth century B.C. — the history from the victory over the Persians, through the
tyranny of the Athenian Empire, the degradation of standards, to the fall of the
city; & in the realm of thought, the coming of the questioning spirit typified by the
sophists, Socrates & Euripides.
2. A reading from ‘The Trojan Women’ was given by Elizabeth Alexander & Mary E.
Robson, in the characters of Cassandra & Hecuba.
3. Leslie Scott, in general comments on the poet’s quality and philosophy, noted
his contradictory reputations — serious or the reverse, nationalist or idealist? With
Dr. Verrall & Gilbert Murray, his popularity had grown immensely. He is accused
of lack of restraint, but he is human. His pathos is moving, even if occasionally
overdrawn. He breaks through stage conventions, his characters are mixed, &
reveal inner conflict. He is at his best with women, though regarded at times as a
woman-hater, at others as a pioneer of her emancipation. It is almost certain that
he deliberately ridicules the Gods. [...]
4. Muriel Stevens took Iphigenia, C. E. Stansfield Orestes, & F. E. Pollard Pylades,
from the Iphigenia in Tauris — the recognition scene.
5. Mary S. W. Pollard as Andromache, & S. A. Reynolds as Talthybius, read the
tragic scene from the Trojan Women, when it is told to his mother that the little
boy Astyanax is to be killed: &
6. Hecuba’s lament for her grandchild was read by Mary E. Robson.
7. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was deferred.
[...]
[signed] Reginald H. Robson
19. 5. 1939'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield Print: Book
'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard gave some account of Athens in
the fifth century B.C. — the history from the victory over the Persians, through the
tyranny of the Athenian Empire, the degradation of standards, to the fall of the
city; & in the realm of thought, the coming of the questioning spirit typified by the
sophists, Socrates & Euripides.
2. A reading from ‘The Trojan Women’ was given by Elizabeth Alexander & Mary E.
Robson, in the characters of Cassandra & Hecuba.
3. Leslie Scott, in general comments on the poet’s quality and philosophy, noted
his contradictory reputations — serious or the reverse, nationalist or idealist? With
Dr. Verrall & Gilbert Murray, his popularity had grown immensely. He is accused
of lack of restraint, but he is human. His pathos is moving, even if occasionally
overdrawn. He breaks through stage conventions, his characters are mixed, &
reveal inner conflict. He is at his best with women, though regarded at times as a
woman-hater, at others as a pioneer of her emancipation. It is almost certain that
he deliberately ridicules the Gods. [...]
4. Muriel Stevens took Iphigenia, C. E. Stansfield Orestes, & F. E. Pollard Pylades,
from the Iphigenia in Tauris — the recognition scene.
5. Mary S. W. Pollard as Andromache, & S. A. Reynolds as Talthybius, read the
tragic scene from the Trojan Women, when it is told to his mother that the little
boy Astyanax is to be killed: &
6. Hecuba’s lament for her grandchild was read by Mary E. Robson.
7. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was deferred.
[...]
[signed] Reginald H. Robson
19. 5. 1939'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard Print: Book
'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard gave some account of Athens in
the fifth century B.C. — the history from the victory over the Persians, through the
tyranny of the Athenian Empire, the degradation of standards, to the fall of the
city; & in the realm of thought, the coming of the questioning spirit typified by the
sophists, Socrates & Euripides.
2. A reading from ‘The Trojan Women’ was given by Elizabeth Alexander & Mary E.
Robson, in the characters of Cassandra & Hecuba.
3. Leslie Scott, in general comments on the poet’s quality and philosophy, noted
his contradictory reputations — serious or the reverse, nationalist or idealist? With
Dr. Verrall & Gilbert Murray, his popularity had grown immensely. He is accused
of lack of restraint, but he is human. His pathos is moving, even if occasionally
overdrawn. He breaks through stage conventions, his characters are mixed, &
reveal inner conflict. He is at his best with women, though regarded at times as a
woman-hater, at others as a pioneer of her emancipation. It is almost certain that
he deliberately ridicules the Gods. [...]
4. Muriel Stevens took Iphigenia, C. E. Stansfield Orestes, & F. E. Pollard Pylades,
from the Iphigenia in Tauris — the recognition scene.
5. Mary S. W. Pollard as Andromache, & S. A. Reynolds as Talthybius, read the
tragic scene from the Trojan Women, when it is told to his mother that the little
boy Astyanax is to be killed: &
6. Hecuba’s lament for her grandchild was read by Mary E. Robson.
7. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was deferred.
[...]
[signed] Reginald H. Robson
19. 5. 1939'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard gave some account of Athens in
the fifth century B.C. — the history from the victory over the Persians, through the
tyranny of the Athenian Empire, the degradation of standards, to the fall of the
city; & in the realm of thought, the coming of the questioning spirit typified by the
sophists, Socrates & Euripides.
2. A reading from ‘The Trojan Women’ was given by Elizabeth Alexander & Mary E.
Robson, in the characters of Cassandra & Hecuba.
3. Leslie Scott, in general comments on the poet’s quality and philosophy, noted
his contradictory reputations — serious or the reverse, nationalist or idealist? With
Dr. Verrall & Gilbert Murray, his popularity had grown immensely. He is accused
of lack of restraint, but he is human. His pathos is moving, even if occasionally
overdrawn. He breaks through stage conventions, his characters are mixed, &
reveal inner conflict. He is at his best with women, though regarded at times as a
woman-hater, at others as a pioneer of her emancipation. It is almost certain that
he deliberately ridicules the Gods. [...]
4. Muriel Stevens took Iphigenia, C. E. Stansfield Orestes, & F. E. Pollard Pylades,
from the Iphigenia in Tauris — the recognition scene.
5. Mary S. W. Pollard as Andromache, & S. A. Reynolds as Talthybius, read the
tragic scene from the Trojan Women, when it is told to his mother that the little
boy Astyanax is to be killed: &
6. Hecuba’s lament for her grandchild was read by Mary E. Robson.
7. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was deferred.
[...]
[signed] Reginald H. Robson
19. 5. 1939'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds Print: Book
'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard gave some account of Athens in
the fifth century B.C. — the history from the victory over the Persians, through the
tyranny of the Athenian Empire, the degradation of standards, to the fall of the
city; & in the realm of thought, the coming of the questioning spirit typified by the
sophists, Socrates & Euripides.
2. A reading from ‘The Trojan Women’ was given by Elizabeth Alexander & Mary E.
Robson, in the characters of Cassandra & Hecuba.
3. Leslie Scott, in general comments on the poet’s quality and philosophy, noted
his contradictory reputations — serious or the reverse, nationalist or idealist? With
Dr. Verrall & Gilbert Murray, his popularity had grown immensely. He is accused
of lack of restraint, but he is human. His pathos is moving, even if occasionally
overdrawn. He breaks through stage conventions, his characters are mixed, &
reveal inner conflict. He is at his best with women, though regarded at times as a
woman-hater, at others as a pioneer of her emancipation. It is almost certain that
he deliberately ridicules the Gods. [...]
4. Muriel Stevens took Iphigenia, C. E. Stansfield Orestes, & F. E. Pollard Pylades,
from the Iphigenia in Tauris — the recognition scene.
5. Mary S. W. Pollard as Andromache, & S. A. Reynolds as Talthybius, read the
tragic scene from the Trojan Women, when it is told to his mother that the little
boy Astyanax is to be killed: &
6. Hecuba’s lament for her grandchild was read by Mary E. Robson.
7. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was deferred.
[...]
[signed] Reginald H. Robson
19. 5. 1939'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson Print: Book
Diary entry, December 2, 1831: "Dealing with Euripides. The Iphigenia in Tauris. Very inferior to
the Iph: in Aulide, as far as I can read".
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Diary entry, December 12, 1831: Finished the Iphigenia in Tauris – not worth re-reading! – and
began the Hippolytus.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Diary entry, December 12, 1831: "Finished the Iphigenia in Tauris –not worth re-reading! –and
began the Hippolytus"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Diary entry, December 19, 1831: The waking was not agreeable. But I read myself into a good
humour. Hippolytus is not one of Euripides’s best plays, tho’ it is very superior to the Ipheginia in
Tauris.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then
goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I feel that I am going to
get anything out of it I can read in a prose or verse book for an infinite space of time. At
school I was birched into reading Vergil, who always excited in me the same hostility that was
aroused by Goethe's FAUST. Homer was also spoiled for me a good deal by the schoolmaster.
The schoolmaster did not contrive however to spoil for me Euripides. I have a good part of the
BACCHAE and some of the ALKESTIS still by heart. But so, indeed, I have Books Two and nine of
the AENEID, so that those mnemonics form no criterion; But for myself I have, I have read most
of the books recommended for the formation of my mind in HOW TO READ—excepting of course
"CONFUCIUS in full..." [...] I have read Doughty's DAWN IN BRITAIN, an epic in twelve books.
And SORDELLO only last night. And CANTO'S.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then
goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I feel that I am going to
get anything out of it I can read in a prose or verse book for an infinite space of time. At
school I was birched into reading Vergil, who always excited in me the same hostility that was
aroused by Goethe's FAUST. Homer was also spoiled for me a good deal by the schoolmaster.
The schoolmaster did not contrive however to spoil for me Euripides. I have a good part of the
BACCHAE and some of the ALKESTIS still by heart. But so, indeed, I have Books Two and nine of
the AENEID, so that those mnemonics form no criterion; But for myself I have, I have read most
of the books recommended for the formation of my mind in HOW TO READ—excepting of course
"CONFUCIUS in full..." [...] I have read Doughty's DAWN IN BRITAIN, an epic in twelve books.
And SORDELLO only last night. And CANTO'S.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
