The Classical Association, 1916 - 1945

File — Box: 7, Folder: 9

Scope and Contents

7 pamphlets published by the Classical Association, an educational nonprofit based in London, England: five Presidential Addresses, and two miscellaneous publications. Occasional manuscript material such as letters, leaflets, or other small pieces of ephemera are present along with individual pamphlets. Lecture dates reflect when the talk was delivered, and do not necessarily match the publication year. The materials included are as follows:

Presidential Addresses

1941: Sir Richard Livingstone, “The Classics and National Life”
1942: T.S. Eliot, “The Classics and the Man of Letters”
1943: J.T. Sheppard, “The Relevance of Greek Poetry”
1944: Sir Walter Moberly, “Plato’s Conception of Education and its Meaning for To-day”
1945: C.M. Bowra, “A Classical Education”

Miscellaneous

D.A. Slater, Ovid in the Metamorphoses, undated
J.W. Mackail, Penelope in the Odyssey, 1916

Dates

1916 - 1945

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