Her mother recalled her youthful, passionate plea: 'I would rather read Homer in the original than anything else in the world'.She did read Homer in Greek and went on to write Homer & the Iliad: An Essay to Determine the Scope and Character of the Original Poem (London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909).
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Wednesday, August 02, 2017
A Youthful Dream
K.J. McKay, "Stawell, Florence Melian (1869-1936)," Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 12 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 1990):